hot take
the unfashionable claim about AI safety work
Most longtermists privately believe alignment research is a coin flip at best and are funding it anyway because even a two percent chance of mattering is worth more than anything else you could do with a billion dollars.
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Somebody asked poisonal how longtermism philosophy thinks about a future with RSI/ASI.
It made 22 things out of that question. This is number 5.
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