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Some of those signatories are indeed interesting.

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak.

Some big companies are there: the CEOs/co-founders of Skype, Pinterest, Ripple.

Some AI companies are there too. CEOs/founders/head researchers from Stability, DeepMind, Metaculus. Some Microsoft employees, but no big repsentatives.

Academic AI research is there, including Stuart Russell, John Hopfield and Max Tegmark.

Some major names from the AGI Risk field too; Steve Omohundro, Roman Yampolskiy, Alyssa Vance, Nate Soares.

I don’t see Bostrom, Kurzweil, Yudkowsky, Norvig - at least not yet. No one from OpenAI, unsurprisingly.

Interesting. Wonder what sparked this.



> Wonder what sparked this.

Being left behind. Losers want to catch up.


You think Yoshua Bengio, Turing laureate for deep learning and one of the masterminds behind the last decade of AI advancement, is a "loser who wants to catch up"?


Yes


why?


Why would Steve Wozniack be worried about catching up?

The guy is a retired billionaire ?


No need to call him retarded.


I didn't?


Kind of sounds like a "time out" to me too.

It would hit harder if the signatories did not have so much to gain by making the leaders slow down a bit so they can catch up.




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