It is difficult to get a man to understand something...

This is a great take from Adam Conover on why this whole pivot to AI safety absolutely stinks.

This consistent pattern of superseding mundane real harms with much more important, more severe hypothetical harms, is a moral hall pass. The issue of cultish philosophy permeating the people sitting in the highest concentration of wealth in the history of the world can’t be good for any of us. Ed Zitron’s interview with Cal Newport and Adam Becker helped clear away some of the FUD¹ on this.

1. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - common tactics to spread misinformation and cloud an information ecosystem. ↩︎