You're likely not familiar with TEMPEST/EMSEC but this stuff was known about and discussed when designing air gaps going back to the 60s..
https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/decla...
the x-risk/LessWrong crowd aren't adding anything to the conversation that seriously people haven't already considered.
I didn't mean they first invented or described the methods, but that they've been consistently presenting a solid argument that these and other methods make airgapping and sandboxing AGI a dangerously flawed idea from the start. They are the serious people who considered this, and to date nobody listens.
Well... they aren't the serious people... which is probably a good thing. You don't really want to know the serious people.
We need a Wildfire base like in the Andromeda Strain
Less wrong gives off a give of wanker doomsday cult in general. Like they just enjoy being scared or something, but are not actually serious about anything. Like the true crime YouTube series enjoyers. That's purely vibes based of course
Yet they were much better at predicting Covid or AI than the "serious people" which dismissed these subjects until it smacked them in the face.