Rob Wiblin
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first heard Oct 2021
last heard 6 Aug
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And another concern is that the net set community, you know, when you describe a new, incredibly dangerous thing, military people, their first impulse is not, we have to ban this.
It's, we have to have this before anyone else.
And I guess we kind of see that with the cyber capabilities of Mythos and Fable, that there's a certain hunger to like grab those powers ahead of anyone else.
Do you think those are severe barriers?
Because especially not when you're shouting about it in the press and an extremely easy way to pick up.
We'll write about it in the New York Times, but we hope they won't read it.
Yeah.
How would you do the verification, do you think?
So that idea- Once people are really motivated.
Yeah, I feel like the distinctive Toby Ord perspective over the last couple of years has been, what if society does realize or come to think this is a very serious issue, it's a very big threat?
And what if they're not idiots about it?
And what if they do the sensible thing?
It's surprising that has been quite a contrarian take or quite a contrarian expectation.
And not many people like imagining, well, how would that play out?
I guess it also requires that things be a bit gradual and things not be like really explosive.
So if we're going to have a moratorium on something, I guess we could imagine like multiple different levels of moratorium.
It could start with just a couple of companies agreeing not to do something that they regard as a dangerous research practice.
And then perhaps the government could get one government can get involved and then you could have an international treaty.
I guess what what should it be about and what should it be on and how would how would you potentially design it?
What do you think are the pros and cons of trying to set a speed limit versus trying to just stop progress completely, which is something at least some people have suggested?
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