| ▲ | frognumber 3 hours ago | |
Be a Bayesian, and they'll stop annoying you. If you have a 5% chance of thermonuclear war each decade for 10 decades, you'll: - Hear similar annoying statements - They'll be true With AI, we don't know if it's one week or one decade. This means we should assign probabilities and consider all possibilities, not get annoyed. | ||
| ▲ | al_borland 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Assigning, and more specifically announcing/reporting on, all possibilities makes all of these predictions meaningless. If I predict the world will end every single day from now until forever, I will most certainly be right eventually. That doesn’t make me an “expert” or someone worth listening to on the topic. That’s the playbook of a doomsday cult, not anyone that should drive world markets. | ||