But somehow the asteroid example does not feel like Pascal’s mugging.
If we’re to talk directly about what Dmytry is talking about without beating around the bush, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs and AI did not, therefore discussion of asteroids is not Pascal’s mugging and discussion of AI risks is; the former makes you merely scientifically aware, and the latter makes you a fraudster, a crackpot or a sucker. If AI risks were real, then surely the dinosaurs would have been killed by an AI instead.
So, let’s all give money to prevent an asteroid extinction event that we know only happens once in a few hundred million years, and let’s not pay any attention to AI risks, because AI risks afterall never happened to the dinosaurs, and must therefore be impossible, much like self-driving cars, heavier-than-air flight, or nuclear bombs.
Well, I seriously doubt Aris actually thinks AI risks are Pascal’s Mugging by definition. That doesn’t prevent this from being a rant, it’s just a sarcastic rant.
If we’re to talk directly about what Dmytry is talking about without beating around the bush, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs and AI did not, therefore discussion of asteroids is not Pascal’s mugging and discussion of AI risks is; the former makes you merely scientifically aware, and the latter makes you a fraudster, a crackpot or a sucker. If AI risks were real, then surely the dinosaurs would have been killed by an AI instead.
So, let’s all give money to prevent an asteroid extinction event that we know only happens once in a few hundred million years, and let’s not pay any attention to AI risks, because AI risks afterall never happened to the dinosaurs, and must therefore be impossible, much like self-driving cars, heavier-than-air flight, or nuclear bombs.
Downvoted for ranting.
I thought it was satire?
It is. It’s also a rant.
It makes a good point, mind, and I upvoted it, but it’s still needlessly ranty.
Then maybe my sarcasm/irony/satire detector is broken.
Well, I seriously doubt Aris actually thinks AI risks are Pascal’s Mugging by definition. That doesn’t prevent this from being a rant, it’s just a sarcastic rant.