I am arguing a specific/narrow hypothetical because it's the only example in If Anyone Builds It. It is literally the _only doom senario_ Yudkowsky gives. If you're willing to give your own doom scenario, I'm willing to engage there.

> It gets unstuck when people are discussing the messy middle of how AI is being implemented. We can achieve amazing harm simply by combining average human behavior and above average resourcing to simulated intelligence machines.

Agree. To quote myself from earlier, "acceleration of global warming, cybercrime, mass surveillance, the usual" definitely applies here. My point is that _DOOM_ is not worth discussing because it's so small relative to the other risks of AI.