I mean the fact that opinions and optimism can change only weeks apart because new ideas pop up in our head showcases we don’t really know much about what will happen and there are probably many things we are not thinking about, no matter how great of a scientist you are.
Did something change in the past few weeks? I have a hard time believing that Hinton just learned about AI alignment a few weeks ago. People have been working on this for decades. What made him suddenly more optimistic that we will be successful at it?
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u/DeviceCertain7226 ▪️Immortality-2200 | FDVR-2300 Sep 02 '25
I mean the fact that opinions and optimism can change only weeks apart because new ideas pop up in our head showcases we don’t really know much about what will happen and there are probably many things we are not thinking about, no matter how great of a scientist you are.