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Daniel Kokotajlo describes his group’s scenario as nearly conservative: it assumes trends continue, no one does anything insane, and no event without supporting evidence occurs.

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“Almost in some sense a conservative position where the trends don't change,”
“nobody does an insane thing,”
“nothing that we have no evidence to think will happen happens,”
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