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tired: p(doom) wired: p(Bond Villain)

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

I'm coining a piece of AI safety terminology that I'd like to refer to as the Bond Villain problem. As a field, AI safety heavily leverages sci-fi pretty heavily, so I figure this should be fine.

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Two important clarifications: - obviously p(Bond Villain) is 1, the only question is how ludicrous their Bond Villain Crime is and whether we as a society act during their Bond Villain Monologue; and - p(doom) was always a “smartism shibboleth“ aka pretentious bullshit bsky.app/profile/adva...

Thomas Wood@advanced-eschatonics.com

Makes it seem like they've done the math...but there's no math that can accurately capture something like that so it's smartism shibboleth I don't have any patience for it. Yall look fucking stupid