If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was published ten days ago and nobody created a general discussion thread post for the book on LessWrong in all that time. Maybe there’s good reason for that, but I don’t know what it is, and I personally would value having a discussion post like this to comment on while rereading the book, so here it is.
Meta: Nitpicky, high-decoupling discussion is encouraged
“This is a review of the reviews” pointed out that it’s weird for people who think AI extinction risk is significant to write reviews of IABIED consisting exclusively of a bunch of disagreements with the book without clearly stating upfront that the situation we find ourselves in is insane:
If you think there’s a 1 in 20 chance it could be so over, it feels to me the part where people are not doing the ‘yes the situation is insane’ even if that is immediately followed up with ‘im more hopeful than them tbc’ is weird.
I agree. Notably, however, this thread is not for complete reviews of the book! And so it’s not weird to just comment your random miscellaneous thoughts below without giving context on your views on AI risk or your overall take on the book.
Basically, I’m in favor of people having nitpicky high-decoupling discussion on lesswrong, and meanwhile doing rah rah activism action PR stuff on twitter and bluesky and facebook and intelligence.org and pauseai.info and op-eds and basically the entire rest of the internet and world. Just one website of carve-out. I don’t think this is asking too much!
IABIED Misc. Discussion Thread
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was published ten days ago and nobody created a general discussion thread post for the book on LessWrong in all that time. Maybe there’s good reason for that, but I don’t know what it is, and I personally would value having a discussion post like this to comment on while rereading the book, so here it is.
Meta: Nitpicky, high-decoupling discussion is encouraged
“This is a review of the reviews” pointed out that it’s weird for people who think AI extinction risk is significant to write reviews of IABIED consisting exclusively of a bunch of disagreements with the book without clearly stating upfront that the situation we find ourselves in is insane:
I agree. Notably, however, this thread is not for complete reviews of the book! And so it’s not weird to just comment your random miscellaneous thoughts below without giving context on your views on AI risk or your overall take on the book.
As Steven Byrnes said: