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    Those worries are manufactured by the AI industry. You can’t just imagine a doomsday scenario and then shift the burden of proof onto people to disprove it.

    Nick Bostrom is involved in some creepy child indoctrination stuff, along with known sex abuser and Rationality cult creator Eli Yudkowsky:

    To give an example of how swiftly teenagers are recruited and rewarded for their participation in EA: one 17-year-old recounts how in the past year since they became involved in EA, they have gained some work experience at Bostrom’s FHI; an internship at EA organization Charity Entrepreneurship; attended the EA summer program called the European Summer Program on Rationality (ESPR)…

    IIRC you were a Yudkowsky fan weren’t you?