“We Support ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by Liron
Description
Mutual-Knowledgeposting
The purpose of this post is to build mutual knowledge that many (most?) of us on LessWrong support If Anyone Builds It, Anyone Dies.
Inside of LW, not every user is a long-timer who's already seen consistent signals of support for these kinds of claims. A post like this could make the difference in strengthening vs. weakening the perception of how much everyone knows that everyone knows (...) that everyone supports the book.
Externally, people who wonder how seriously the book is being taken may check LessWrong and look for an indicator of how much support the book has from the community that Eliezer Yudkowsky originally founded.
The LessWrong frontpage, where high-voted posts are generally based on "whether users want to see more of a kind of content", wouldn't by default map a large amount of internal support for IABIED into a frontpage that signals support, and more [...]
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Outline:
(00:10 ) Mutual-Knowledgeposting
(01:09 ) Statement of Support
(01:45 ) Similarity to the CAIS Statement on AI Risk
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First published:
September 23rd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPi4HYA9ZtHKo6h8N/we-support-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies
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