Blogger rebuts the 'RSI-to-superintelligence emergency' framing of AI risk
binarybits · x · 2026-09-21
In a debate with David Shor, binarybits clarifies his stance on AI existential risk: what he rejects is not the claim that AI could be destabilizing in hard-to-predict ways — analogous to the internet or the combustion engine, which he finds a reasonable case for slowing down — but the intellectual framework positing an emergency because labs are about to trigger recursive self-improvement toward superintelligence and loss of human control. He also links his 2,000-word review of Soares and Yudkowsky's book.
Related event: X Debates RSI Doom Narrative and Slowing AI: Chimera or Years Away(14 posts)→
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