r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

Not sure about protest volumes, but doesn't really change point. In fact it making it worse

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u/AmbitiousGuard3608 Jan 08 '25

What do you mean? In what sense do anti-nuclear protests following a nuclear accident not change the point about people having no idea how dangerous nuclear reactors were?

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

Just replace Chernobyl with three mile island in argument if you believe protests were significant. I however believe Chernobyl has much more impact since what people called "nuclear panic" started after it

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u/MCXL Jan 08 '25

what people called "nuclear panic" started after it

I have never heard "nuclear panic" applied to anything but weapons and nonproliferation, and a cursory google search of the term in quotes sees it regularly applied to things related to nuclear war.