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Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

This piece includes a list at the bottom of further reading on the intense weirdness that has sprung up around the US AI industry, and you can find even more weird little AI guy reading here: semble.so/profile/fain...

I love drawing superintelligent dogs with thumbs using drones to destroy humanity, I should do this more often

It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.

shocking! 68.8% of self-identified effective altruists are men, 75% are white, and 80% attended a top 200 university! nobody saw THAT one coming! forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/z4Wxd2...

i wonder if it would actually be possible to get eliezer yudkowsky genuinely worried about the thumb dogs with drones attacking humanity can anyone familiar with rat nonsense advise

You have to write it up in a 700,000-word Harry Potter fanfic first. "Harry Potter and the Dogs with Thumbs"