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BenPace

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BenPace··on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
Oops, I misread the original context, to be clear I think that state-managed violence is okay for things around nukes and AI and so on. I was referring to individual acts of terrorism which seem not okay to me (in part because they seem not that likely to help).
BenPace··on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
Just because everything is on the line does not mean it is okay to kill people. Please try to ask yourself what you would do if you were an ethical person who thought human extinction was imminent.
BenPace··on Stanislav Petrov, Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War on Sept. 26, 1983 (2017)
You might be interested to know how we're honoring him today in the rationality and effective altruism communities.

We've set up big red buttons on each site that 100 core users of each site can use to 'nuke' the other site. If 1 of those 100 users enters their launch codes, the other site goes down.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EW8yZYcu3Kff2qShS/petrov-day...