If you claim “these [AI risk] concerns make no sense” then you either lack imagination, are willfully ignorant, or are selling something.

It’s perfectly reasonable to say something like “I think it’s very unlikely because I disagree that [insert causal link in the model] is plausible.”

But to claim that the whole set of concerns are nonsensical is lazy thinking.

You see this a lot (and Robin Hanson and PG have commented on this dynamic recently) where a small group makes a bunch of very specific claims, which get dismissed by the “mainstream” without actually engaging with or understanding them.

So in this case, “[the concerns] make no sense” should be read as “I did not bother to try to understand these claims, but I don’t like the conclusion”, not any particular argument about whether they are logically sound.

Ignore.