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[Attention conservation notice: description of a social phenomenon which may be obvious to some people.] This post is partially inspired by Alexander Wales’ Majority and Minority, which I would recommend highly. I’m afraid of dogs. Like, pathologically afraid of dogs. I cross the street to avoid people walking tiny poodles;...

There is a common argument that AI development is dangerous that goes something like: 1. The “goal” of evolution is to make animals which replicate their genes as much as possible; 2. humans do not want to replicate their genes as much as possible; 3. we have some goal which...