Rebutting Lambert: "effectively zero but not actually zero" risk matters
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-09
In a discussion with Nathan Lambert, this user argues the risk of current AI capabilities is "effectively zero but not actually zero," and that distinction matters. Analogizing to physical infrastructure, they claim if what happened at HF happened in real physical systems, the line would already be crossed — and honesty about all this is the only way through.
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