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#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

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Should We Be More Sympathetic to Some of the Early Criticism of Superintelligence?

i felt like theik didn't quite understand where superintelligence was coming from. And so i think i felt pretty dismissive of them, because i felt like i could point to theedea and the arguments. The more an argument relies on fuzzy concepts, or in argument discusses something that we really have very little familiarity with,  the less we should be inclined to give weight to these arguments.

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