Because scared people do random things. They may elect someone who promises to protect them, and those person’s goals will be practically random (except for the part where they want to get more power). Or they may refuse good proposals on risk reduction, because everything will seem equally scary. Etc.
Idk if this is true, but let’s say it is true. In my mind, this is still an improvement over the current situation, which is that the public will be unaware while AI lab heads and US intelligence heads rush to build the Machine God and succeed, and then either cause human extinction or build an immortal dictatorship.
Because scared people do random things. They may elect someone who promises to protect them, and those person’s goals will be practically random (except for the part where they want to get more power). Or they may refuse good proposals on risk reduction, because everything will seem equally scary. Etc.
Idk if this is true, but let’s say it is true. In my mind, this is still an improvement over the current situation, which is that the public will be unaware while AI lab heads and US intelligence heads rush to build the Machine God and succeed, and then either cause human extinction or build an immortal dictatorship.
What am I missing?