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To avoid shifting goalposts

But it doesn't do that. "Imagine how you'll be wrong in the future" is just as shiftable as anything else, and has the distinct rhetorical advantage of being unfalsifiable.

The substantive difference is that you're asking me to dream up ridiculously improbable scenarios, which is probably the actual point. Just like "The End is Near Accept Jesus" guy on the street corner gets what he wants as soon as I engage.

To quote a famous movie about doomy AI scenarios: "the only winning move is not to play."

There are no goalposts. No one is trying to score points except you.

I think I'm coming across as confrontational, which is genuinely not my intention - sorry about that. Not trying to score points or anything, just encourage people to introspect a bit :)

I think your viewpoint is totally valid, and I'm not trying to argue against it.

Not confrontational, but proselytizing.

Is there truly nothing an AI system could do (no matter how outlandish it seems today) that would give you pause?

Yes, just like that. What would it take for you to accept Our Lord into your heart?

The bar is high, but there's probably some combination of events (combined with a high confidence in my own lucidity over an extended period of time) that would convince me.

Same same.

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