994 karma · joined September 9, 2016
This strikes me as a particularly funny typo
This makes no sense to me at all. Is it a war metaphor? A race? Why is there no reason to jump ship? Doesn't it make sense to try to get on the fastest ship? Doesn't it make sense to diversify your stock portfolio if you have doubts?
But you might be claiming "people would buy an empty box, if apple put its logo on the box"
The topic here is human extinction caused by AI. I don't know of any serious argument for why a non-general intelligence (really a system less intelligent than a human) would pose an extinction risk to humanity.
Plus, my background understanding of the people who signed this is that they're worried about AGI, not present-day systems, but that's an inference.