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I found the article interesting. However, the title of the article contains the weasel word "may". I've come to a practice that whenever I see the words may, could, might, etc. in the title of an article, I automatically invert it. In this case "AGI may align with human needs in some unspecified timeframe". This may not reassure you if you believe AGI will kill us all before that time, but it is a quite different implication.

Furthermore, sadly no "science" was presented to actually justify the original title's implication.



> I've come to a practice that whenever I see the words may, could, might, etc. in the title of an article, I automatically invert it

This is similar to Betteride's Law of Headlines:

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...




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