Dan Hendrycks: belief

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…And Yeah. Then we'll get we'll get to the differences. Do do you buy that notion that also this should be on the table of some kind of cause or no? I I I think making time for technical research, I'm not expecting much return on investment from that. I don't think most success strategies in the foreseeable future particularly go through AIs being fully controllable. So I do technical research. I do think the more I'll give you comeback on that. Like an extreme version of the argument I just placed comes from the cognitive psychologist and evolutionary psychologist Jeffrey Miller, who had a tweet that I really liked which was, if it you know, we should wait until we can build this stuff safely even if that takes I forget what he said. I'll say 250 years. And it was an interesting framing because, like, everybody's thinking, like, what should we do next week, or should we sign this pause letter? And it was kind of deliberately extreme. Like, I think it was maybe even 500 years. Like, if it takes us 500 years, we should just wait. And, you know, I could see an argument for that. And in fact, wonder what the counterarguments are.…

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