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Comment by Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over
So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Nonetheless I am still for people doing constructive work on the problem of alignment, just as we do with all other technologies, to improve them. I have even funded some of this work through Emergent Ventures.
Besides, what kind of civilization is it that turns away from the challenge of dealing with more…intelligence? [...] So we should take the plunge. [...] We should take the plunge. We already have taken the plunge. We designed/tolerated our decentralized society so we could take the plunge.
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(2023)
7mo ago
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Quote attributed to Tyler Cowen from Marginal Revolution post "Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history" (March 2023). WebFetch on marginalrevolution.com source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms the post exists at the cited URL with verbatim phrasing including "Radical agnosticism is the correct response", "what kind of civilization is it that turns away from the challenge of dealing with more...intelligence", and "We should take the plunge." Multiple response posts (Zvi Mowshowitz, ForOurPosterity, LessWrong) corroborate these phrases as Cowen's. Vote "for" "Build artificial general intelligence" correctly aligns with Cowen's "take the plunge" pro-AGI stance. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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