My primary guess is that the 6% who like RSI but not ASI are answering based on vibes rather than coherent models, and ASI currently has worse vibes.
Though I could imagine some people thinking that RSI will stop before “superintelligence”, and other people thinking that orthogonality is wrong and RSI would continue beyond some window of “dangerous superintelligence” into “godlike benevolence”. I personally consider both of those possibilities to be so staggeringly implausible that they’re basically just wishful thinking, but I also think that more than 6% of people are engaging in some amount of wishful thinking about AI.
My primary guess is that the 6% who like RSI but not ASI are answering based on vibes rather than coherent models, and ASI currently has worse vibes.
Though I could imagine some people thinking that RSI will stop before “superintelligence”, and other people thinking that orthogonality is wrong and RSI would continue beyond some window of “dangerous superintelligence” into “godlike benevolence”. I personally consider both of those possibilities to be so staggeringly implausible that they’re basically just wishful thinking, but I also think that more than 6% of people are engaging in some amount of wishful thinking about AI.