>>Every AI safety researcher knows about the paper clip maximizer. Few seem to grasp the ways this subculture is mimicking that tunnel vision.

>Lol really?? You're comparing some bad PR incidents to the literal unintentional destruction of life on Earth

Your reply is a perfect example of the blind spot the quote from the article is referring to.

"some bad PR incidents" being sexual harassment and assault, facilitated by the in-group doctrine, and the Paperclip Optimizer being a central tenet of the in-group, while for the real world it's a quaint and somewhat interesting hypothetical about a far off future.

So we have real, actual harm hand-waved away by reference to a hypothetical.