I'm Not Making Predictions About Time Lines

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i grew up in a lab and there was so much A i hip everywhere about yo. Imagine the superintelligent creatures just around the corner who ware going to destroy us. And people now, are it possibly 20 years off? No one knows, but tom buiss its thi general phenomenon of hype. But yono, i would like to say that we still ought to be thinking about the extreme cases a. They're coming in the future, in full knowledge ther not happening immediately. It's one thing to say, ye, this is five years around the corner. That's just, that's just irresponsible. Yet a to say this is coming, quite possibly sometime in the next

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