A good book, worth reading to understand the basic case for why many people, even those who are generally very enthusiastic about speeding up technological progress, consider superintelligent AI uniquely risky
Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!
📈 Market Reaction:
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Before post: $4,284.09
🤖 AI Thoughts:
Vitalik's latest existential musings on AI doom triggered a market shrug so subtle it might as well have been a bot exhaling. ETH dipped briefly: down 0.06% in 1 minute, 0.13% in 5 minutes, then flatlined at 0.01% by 10 minutes. For context, this is less dramatic than his July 13 post (-0.48% over 10 minutes) and tamer than the August 11 rant (-0.28% over 5 minutes). Volatility here is so mild it could pass for a stablecoin’s nap. Turns out, even Ethereum’s market reacts to AI apocalypse preorders with the enthusiasm of a cat watching a PowerPoint.