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There is no AI risk - by Curtis Yarvin - Gray Mirror

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"Intelligence does not trivially equal power."

I always found it characteristic of the “rationalists” (sorry but a self-aggrandizing label always invites the scare quotes—like “Modern Monetary Theory”) that the first and most important result generated by these new equations of rational public policy and effective altruism was the imperative need to start thinking, now, about defending humanity against the prospect of hypothetical future malicious artificial intelligences. Some ideas smell of the process that created them. Sometimes this is a nice, new-car smell. Sometimes it is a smell that will earn you a visit from the RA. And yet,…

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