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I think the AI safety debate is about not starting an AI Manhatten project, sponsored by the unlimited resources of the government, before we understand AI safety better. This is contributing to AI safety because it's right sized. Skynet is not going to fall out of a single PC running a virtual machine on commodity hardware.

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It's right sized to what purpose?

I was mostly pointing out the trade off between doing "direct" research on AI safety and actually speeding up the whole field significantly leaving us with less time (while trying to have better sense of the uncertainties involved), and asking for a rationale. Of course, a single PC is one of the least probable sources for AGI, but that was not my argument.

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