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What about the old classic move of taking to the streets with pitchforks?

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Fighting an AI you can’t control with a violent mob you can’t control? Sounds guaranteed to make things worse.

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I would go for the people making the AIs. I appreciate why AI safety folks avoid conflict with their ideological opponents, but I'm not in the AI safety community and I'm very angry at the whole situation

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Now I've calmed down a bit I'd like to apologise for the threatening tone of this comment. The only violence the capabilities crowd should face is the state-sponsored kind.

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Which we should communicate with the governments that a small minority of nuts want us all to die and we should stop their terrorism.

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What? And stop the wild appreciation of my AI stocks, like NVDA and SMCI?

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My children and humanity > your stocks

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Because "state-sponsored" violence is so morally superior--i.e. what you see in the wars in Ukraine, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, WWI and WWII ????????????????

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