Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/1736577228828496179 This is one of those perspectives that feels wise but I quite disagree with. Consider Covid in Jan 2020. At that time, was it right to focus on (i) actual current realized harm, or (ii) hypotheticals based on projecting exponential functions? Clearly (ii).
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Drew Volpe
@drew
Covid in Jan 2020 wasn’t hypothetical in the same way. People had already died from it and we had an understanding of how quickly it would likely spread. The kinds of evil AI scenarios Ng is talking about haven’t ever happened and aren’t possible today.
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Drew Volpe
@drew
I agree with him there’s too much of a focus on grand doomsday threats and not enough on the simple, bad things that are emerging. We need to study both and it feels like the latter is being starved.
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