> And inoculate yourself against AI x-risk nonsense. That’s not something you should be worrying about.
I'm actually a "believer" in the "AI x-risk nonsense", having self-converted over a decade ago into a sympathizer / non-practitioning follower of the cult of Yudkowsky and his LessWrong disciples. Religious metaphors aside, over the past 10 years I figured out a (what I think is) healthy attitude to this - I am worried at the intellectual level, but I'm not feeling anxious or terrified of it on a daily basis.
I suppose it's the same attitude as everyone has to the threat of nuclear war.
I suggest reassessing the reasons you hold your beliefs regarding Yud/LW's AI x-risk extremism, especially in light of the fact that nearly every prediction they've made has been wrong. They have a stellarly bad track record for AI related predictions, and base their conclusions about inevitable AI doom on incomputable, unrealistic models of how AI works. All their predictions about a singularity stem from a hidden integral over infinity within Solomonoff induction, and not realistic models of how AI actually work. Get rid of the bad model and so too go the repugnant conclusions.
We've had artificial general intelligence since 2017. It is changing the world, but not in any way resembling the Big Scary Idea.
And inoculate yourself against AI x-risk nonsense. That’s not something you should be worrying about.