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This. Very accurate. At the end of they day this is a battle between academics and capitalists and what they stand for. We generally know how this typically goes…

>>quiett+(OP)
The capitalists run it into the ground while the academics stand around confused asking each other what happened?

>>quiett+(OP)
I don't see many academics indulge in sensationalist doomsaying. That's the real difference here. SETI wouldn't and couldn't seek grants by proposing to contact murderous aliens.

I think academics have a general faith in goodwill of intelligence.Benevolence may be a convergent phenomenon. Maybe the mechanisms of reason themselves require empathy and goodness

>>simsey+z2
Huh? There's plenty of AI doomerism amongst academics, see Bengio, Hinton, etc...

>>sudosy+03
Hinton makes cliched statements as if he's not given much thought to safety but feels obliged for whatever reason