What Dynomight thinks about AGI
The pseudonymous author of dynomight.net, who writes carefully argued posts about health claims, statistics and artificial intelligence, and who reads the underlying papers before deciding what to believe. He publishes his own retractions as full posts rather than as footnotes.
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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Dynomight has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldA vastly superhuman intelligence would still not be able to talk people out of their beliefs, because humans are barely persuadable.
No longer holdsI take it back. Instead of being unsure, I now lean strongly towards the idea that the Being would in fact be very good at convincing people of stuff, and far better than any human.
SaidI’m switching positions because of an argument I found very persuasive.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsI suspect that if you decided to be open-minded, then the Being would probably be extremely persuasive. But I don’t think it’s very common to do that.