The essential problem with AI safety: there will always be some people who are willing to roll the dice.

The essential problem with AI safety: there will always be some people who are willing to roll the dice.

We need to figure out a way to convince people who have a reality distortion field around themselves to really get that superintelligent AI is not like the rest of reality. 

You can't just be high agency and gritty and resourceful. 

Just in the same way that no matter how virtuous and intelligent a cow gets, it can never beat the humans. 

We need to convince them to either change their minds, or we have to use the law and governments to protect the many from the reality distortion fields of the few. 

And I say this an entrepreneurial person who has more self-efficacy than might be good for me. 

But I use that self-efficacy to work on getting us more time to figure AI safety out. 

Even I don't have the arrogance to think that something vastly smarter and more powerful than me will care about what I want by default.

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