I think another John Wentworth post is applicable here. It’s not hard to invent reasons why any given post might increase existential risk by some amount. (What if your comment encourages pro-censorship attitudes that hamper the collective intellectual competence we need to reduce existential risk?) In order to not function as trolling, you need to present a case for the risk being plausible, not just possible.
TIL, thanks for the information on that. I’m not trying to troll, my apologies if my comment comes across that way. It’s just interesting to me that this specific scenario was written about before, yet wasn’t surfaced in the discussion.
I think another John Wentworth post is applicable here. It’s not hard to invent reasons why any given post might increase existential risk by some amount. (What if your comment encourages pro-censorship attitudes that hamper the collective intellectual competence we need to reduce existential risk?) In order to not function as trolling, you need to present a case for the risk being plausible, not just possible.
TIL, thanks for the information on that. I’m not trying to troll, my apologies if my comment comes across that way. It’s just interesting to me that this specific scenario was written about before, yet wasn’t surfaced in the discussion.