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re the website name (aipanic) and the attitude that the real problem is the people reaction to ai and not ai itself.

radio erevan q&a

q: what should we do in case of an atomic attack?

a: you dress in a white sheet and head tippy-toe to the cemetery.

q: but why tippy-toe?

a: let's not create panic, comrade.

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> re the website name (aipanic) and the attitude that the real problem is the people reaction to ai and not ai itself.

The website seems to be about fighting "ai panic" though, not producing/sharing the panic. At least that's how I understand the last sentence:

> It was after this meeting that I decided I wanted to fight the publicly-facing AI hype and doom - even more.

we are reading 'panic' the same way :) fight panic all you want, but ai rendering the vast majority of humans redundant is quite a more pressing problem to fight, i would say.

A great many people disagree and do not think that is a likely or even remote outcome. If they are correct, then you are shouting "FIRE" in a crowd for no reason.

If there's a lot of smoke coming, people are running out of the building and you can see an ominous red glow in the windows, shouting "FIRE" is the right thing to do even if we are not going to be engulfed in flames this very second or the next. The potential costs given the evidence we all have are simply not comparable.

What smoke? So far the predictions of AI x-risk folk haven't panned out the way they said it would. In fact the opposite has happened. What smoke are you referring to?

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