The ASI Existential Risk Debate Has Become an Argument-Free Mud Fight
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-09-17
Florian Gallwitz argues the debate over existential risks from ASI has devolved into an argument-free mud fight where both sides hurl insults and impute bad motives. He locates the root cause in genuinely different assessments of whether — and how probably — ASI can be kept under humanity's long-term control.
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