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“Regardless of X, you can still just sign superintelligence-statement.org if you agree” by Ishual


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TL;DR: you can still just sign this statement if you agree with it. It still matters, and you can clarify your position in a statement of support (600 characters) next to your name, and you can clarify your actual full position on LW and/or elsewhere.

Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...)

X= whether you agree with me that safety researchers have a duty to take a public stance. If you agree with the statement and you are working at a lab where some of your coworkers signed, please consider that signing make it less personally costly for them to have signed.

X= whether you agreed with signing a more detailed longer statement that included many more things lots of folks agree on. Indeed, for many specific reasons I tried to address in the past post, seems like https://superintelligence-statement.org/ addresses those [...]

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Outline:

(00:29) Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...)

(02:22) Examples of statements of support:

(05:35) You can still just sign

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

October 24th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oYmcHhEFZm3WPa7j5/regardless-of-x-you-can-still-just-sign-superintelligence

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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