“JDP Reviews IABIED” by jdp

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (hereafter referred to as "Everyone Builds It" or "IABIED" because I resent Nate's gambit to get me to repeat the title thesis) is an interesting book. One reason it's interesting is timing: It's fairly obvious at this point that we're in an alignment winter. The winter seems roughly caused by:

1. The 2nd election of Donald Trump removing Anthropic's lobby from the white house. Notably this is not a coincidence but a direct result of efforts from political rivals to unseat that lobby. When the vice president of the United States is crashing AI safety summits to say that "I'm not here this morning to talk about AI safety, which was the title of the conference a couple of years ago. I'm here to talk about AI opportunity" and that "we'll make every effort to [...]

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First published:
September 19th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mztwygscvCKDLYGk8/jdp-reviews-iabied

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