Hmm. I see. It’s a weird sentence, to call a person a “disaster precedent”. It would work better with a simple rearrangement:
”Memorable storytelling about past disasters highlights why top thinkers (e.g. the inventor of two environmental nightmares: tetra-ethyl-lead gasoline and Freon) so often don’t see the catastrophes they create.”
Hmm. I see. It’s a weird sentence, to call a person a “disaster precedent”. It would work better with a simple rearrangement:
”Memorable storytelling about past disasters highlights why top thinkers (e.g. the inventor of two environmental nightmares: tetra-ethyl-lead gasoline and Freon) so often don’t see the catastrophes they create.”
But I suppose one does not simply edit a quote.
The whole AI safety concern implies that the intersection of “thinkers” and “disasters” is non-null, yes?