I don’t think the Zizian murders were committed “with the intention of halting capabilities gain at some company or another”, nor did they have any of the predicted effects on the AI landscape?
the media runs with exactly the sort of story you’d expect it to run with
I haven’t closely followed it, but my impression is that media coverage has been less unfavorable than one might have predicted / than this suggests, tending to recognize the Zizians as a rejected weird fringe phenomenon and sympathetically quote rationalists saying so.
I don’t think the Zizian murders were committed “with the intention of halting capabilities gain at some company or another”, nor did they have any of the predicted effects on the AI landscape?
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I haven’t closely followed it, but my impression is that media coverage has been less unfavorable than one might have predicted / than this suggests, tending to recognize the Zizians as a rejected weird fringe phenomenon and sympathetically quote rationalists saying so.
Thanks for the pushback—added an edit acknowledging this.