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Your comments are grim. What's your estimate on self replication? Sustained energy? Trigger fingers?

Oh, nvm you made it clear 8m later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147638

Give me an argument for not having a grim outlook given current AI trajectories paired with a political apparatus incapable of action. At least in the US.

Putin's getting old. If he dies before we hit recursive self-improvement, there's a chance some maniac gets access to the nukes and saves 4 billion of us (global nuclear war only kills about half of humanity).

Oh thanks I feel better now!

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