The AI demons show a casual and happy attitude toward technically driven apocalypse. They discuss 10% odds in the same way that a horse bookie discusses a 10 to 1 long shot. Bettors love the long shot, which is why tech demons and horse bookies chatter about it as foreplay.
New thought: We’ve seen the same attitude before in a different technical context with different sources of BIG money. CERN was trying to create a black hole. When questioned, the “scientists” had the same casually cheerful attitude. “Yeah, there’s a finite probability that the black hole could consume the earth.”
Big science grantors aren’t the same set of people as venture capitalists but they’re the same Effective Altruist type. They enjoy betting trillions on wiping out the universe.
