AGI soon would be inconvenient to our own narrative: I remember spending a few hours to understand the chinchilla scaling laws; my stomach sunk.
This was me about four months ago, except my trigger of multi-day dread and depression was seeing the METR graph of task-completion time horizons.
I guess some of us have just had that moment of “oh shit” and concluded x-risk is a real thing that we really need to worry about, and some of us haven’t.
Are we all (in this thread and this community) just wired in an unusual way that makes us assume worst case scenario is the most worthy of our attention?
This was me about four months ago, except my trigger of multi-day dread and depression was seeing the METR graph of task-completion time horizons.
I guess some of us have just had that moment of “oh shit” and concluded x-risk is a real thing that we really need to worry about, and some of us haven’t.
Are we all (in this thread and this community) just wired in an unusual way that makes us assume worst case scenario is the most worthy of our attention?