p(doom) debate: 50% risk routes through institutional failure, not alignment progress
jd_pressman · x · 2026-09-12
A p(doom) discussion: one poster notes people usually mean replacement by a successor species or paperclipper, while the reply argues a 50% doom estimate mostly doesn't route through alignment progress as the core bottleneck — that bottleneck is institutional.
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