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> This increases the systematic risk that Artificial Super Intelligence is eventually developed in a rival nation state.

Love to see that opportunity.

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Ah yes, what a bright future if a country that has slaughtered tens of thousands of their own human rights lawyers gets to superintelligence first.

I wish we had simulations where people could live out the consequences of their ideas before they happened.

Meanwhile our noble side only slaughters foreigners, so you see that makes us the good guys

Yes there is indeed a big difference between slaughtering your own human rights lawyers en masse, and engaging in pointless wars. I cannot even believe you're trying to paint the former as better than the latter.

How seriously people treat this risk will play a major role into the fate of the major labs. It's going to be used in the argument for bailout. It could be used to spin a more extreme narrative, pushing for a flavor of nationalization. At least one lab will survive in the defense sector, but it could be a secondary lab that is a M&A target of an established company.

If the risk is serious or not has little impact on how seriously we treat the risk. Just another way that AI is disconnecting us from ground truth.

I'd like to replace the word risk with the word opportunity, again.

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