I highly doubt you would say something as false as “doom being inevitable” without qualifiers!
Like, sure, maybe this is just really terrible miscommunication, but that itself also seems kind of crazy. Like, the above thread mentions no conditional. It does not say that “doom is inevitable if we build ASI”, or anything like that. It just claims that Nate + Eliezer say that “doom is inevitable”, no qualifiers.
I do think there’s some amount of “these guys are weirdo extremists” signaling implicit in stating that they think doom is inevitable, but I don’t think it stems from not reading the book / not understanding the conditional (the conditional is in the title!)
I highly doubt you would say something as false as “doom being inevitable” without qualifiers!
Like, sure, maybe this is just really terrible miscommunication, but that itself also seems kind of crazy. Like, the above thread mentions no conditional. It does not say that “doom is inevitable if we build ASI”, or anything like that. It just claims that Nate + Eliezer say that “doom is inevitable”, no qualifiers.
I do think there’s some amount of “these guys are weirdo extremists” signaling implicit in stating that they think doom is inevitable, but I don’t think it stems from not reading the book / not understanding the conditional (the conditional is in the title!)