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listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the [[AI safety community]]
 
listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the [[AI safety community]]
  
* [[Predicting the future is hard]]
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* [[Predicting the future is hard, predicting a future with futuristic technology is even harder]]
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* [[AI safety has many prerequisites]]
 
* [[One cannot tinker with AGI safety because no AGI has been built yet]]
 
* [[One cannot tinker with AGI safety because no AGI has been built yet]]
 
* [[Thinking about death is painful]]
 
* [[Thinking about death is painful]]
 
* [[Abstract utilitarianish thinking can infect everyday life activities]] (see [[Anna Salamon]]'s post about this for more details)
 
* [[Abstract utilitarianish thinking can infect everyday life activities]] (see [[Anna Salamon]]'s post about this for more details)
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* [[AI safety contains some memetic hazards]] (e.g. distant superintelligence stuff, malign universal prior, most famously [[Roko's basilisk]]) -- I think this one affects a very small percentage (maybe 1% or less than that) of people who become interested in AI safety
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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* [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition]]
 
* [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition]]
  
[[Category:AI safety community]]
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==What links here==
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[[Category:AI safety meta]]

Latest revision as of 18:25, 18 July 2021

listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the AI safety community

See also

What links here