⚠️declaring accelerationist amnesty⚠️
if recent contact with reality is causing you to feel some kernels of worry about this whole ai safety thing, you are allowed to change your mind. you don't even have to change it all the way, you don't have to suddenly change your twitter bio or start protesting against nuclear power plants, you don't need to become an EA or suddenly think yudkowsky was always right about everything. you're allowed to just notice that shit seems to be getting real in some pretty weird ways and update your beliefs.
at least personally, if i see someone saying "damn, i guess i was wrong or at least overconfident about X" i'm not gonna take the opportunity to dunk or i told you so. i'm sure others will, this is the fucking internet. but at least personally, i'm just gonna be happy that you're paying attention. there were lots and lots of good reasons to not take this situation seriously. there were lots of well verbalized reasons why rushing ahead was potentially a huge benefit for humanity. hell there were maybe even valid reasons why there was little to be done until we'd already gotten to nearly exactly this point. that's all fine man. all that matters right now is that we as a civilization realize what we're on the verge of, and make it through this carefully. it's gonna take a huge effort from all of us.