My reaction to this book has been “what an amazing talent Russell must have to build all of this up from normality”. But maybe it’s not talent. Maybe Russell is just recounting his own intellectual journey. Maybe this is what a straightforward examination of AI risk looks like if you have fewer crazy people in your intellectual pedigree than I do.
Fwiw, I think it is mostly the last one, partly on the basis of having talked with Stuart a bit, and partly on the basis that the story in Human Compatible matches my reasons for believing AI risk is real a lot more than the “traditional” futurist story.
Fwiw, I think it is mostly the last one, partly on the basis of having talked with Stuart a bit, and partly on the basis that the story in Human Compatible matches my reasons for believing AI risk is real a lot more than the “traditional” futurist story.