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Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

Oxide and Friends

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The Technological Dividend of World War II

I think World War II was very stressful. But I think that you look at how much technological innovation happened in a super short period of time. It's like that existential threat managed to really motivate people. And so when people, and there were people who thought they could just give the AGI a credit card and it could create a PCB online is not going to actually happen.

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