Here are some cached responses to common refrains from those arguing that AI existential risk is not a problem.

I finished Grapes of Wrath this morning, reading in a frenzy until 4am. I must have drank that whole book up in only 4 or 5 days, all 500 or so pages of it.

This is a ‘strong opinion, weakly held’.

Veritasium released a video recently on a very curious paradox that I found quite unintuitive at first. The paradox relates to the following SAT problem from 1982.

What is the value of living an examined life? Why sit and engage in introspection on a cushion, or take ayahuasca in a south american rainforest?

Many systems can be described in a deterministic fashion. That is to say, given some collection of information about a system, you may reliably and consistently predict some other information about the system.