Review of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

I recently read “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. One way to summarize the argument is as follows: 1. In a fast take-off scenario, it is virtually certain that humanity will be wiped out. 2. We don’t know if we are a month away, or a year away, or a decade away, from an improvement that would put us into a fast take-off scenario. 3. Given premises 1 and 2,…