> whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly.

I disagree. If the singularity doesn't happen, then what people do or don't believe matters a lot. If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe (edit: about whether or not the singularity will happen).

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afthonos 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think that’s quite right. I’d say instead that if the singularity does happen, there’s no telling which beliefs will have mattered.

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cgannett 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing

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goatlover 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Which would also mean the accelerationists are potentially putting everyone at risk. I'd think a soft takeoff decades in the future would give us a much better chance of building the necessary safeguards and reorganizing society accordingly.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is a soft takeoff We, the people actually building it, have been discussing it for decades I started reading Kurzweil in the early 90s If you’re not up to speed that’s your fault

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sigmoid10 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Depends on what a post singularity world looks like, with Roko's basilisk and everything.

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Negitivefrags 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If the singularity does happen, then it hardly matters what people do or don't believe.

Depends on how you feel about Roko's basilisk.

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VonTum 5 hours ago | parent [-]

God Roko's Basilisk is the most boring AI risk to catch the public consciousness. It's just Pascal's wager all over again, with the exact same rebuttal.

	▲	camgunz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The culture that brought you "speedrunning computer science with JavaScript" and "speedrunning exploitative, extractive capitalism" is back with their new banger "speedrunning philosophy". Nuke it from orbit; save humanity.