nabla_theta: happy to be wrong if the AI utopia arrives with little ex ante risk
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-11
Responding to NathanpmYoung's point that in worlds where things turn out fine and Altman gets credit for speeding up AI, it will be hard for some to accept, nablatheta says he would happily admit he was wrong if we end up with a glorious AI utopia and there wasn't much ex ante risk in retrospect.
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