I would be interested in an investigation into the history of existential risk concerns around nanotechnology and the lessons it might hold for the modern AI risk community.
The relevant section of that doc is quite interesting, and I recommend reading it. I raise this here since it’s somewhat relevant to “6. The history of predictions (especially long-range predictions and predictions of things like extinction), millenarianism, and how often people have been right vs wrong about these and other things”.
Ben Garfinkel writes:
The relevant section of that doc is quite interesting, and I recommend reading it. I raise this here since it’s somewhat relevant to “6. The history of predictions (especially long-range predictions and predictions of things like extinction), millenarianism, and how often people have been right vs wrong about these and other things”.