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Yud: “…preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.” (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/)
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Broke: Skynet nukes us.

Woke: We nuke ourselves to stone age to prevent Skynet.

I mean this is the backstory of The Matrix (with the twist being that it didn't work)

So the basilisk will take a few thousand years longer to get around to eternally torturing an infinite number of simulacra of Yud? No problem, it can wait as long as it needs to.

IIRC Yud has said he does not believe Roko's Basilisk to be either sound or likely. He just promotes the argument indirectly because it comes from his clique and raises the profile thereof.
Said? Yes. Acted? No. He definitely believed when it first came up, and I suspect he might still, under any argumentation.

The problem with AI extinction scenarios is that we’ll be fully compliant the whole way. Just as we’ve already given up our privacy for the benefits of smartphones, AI will give us anything we want just to get us out of its way.

is considered a priority by whom?