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the former will scale to the latter. But I also think that conditional on reaching a scenario with this
level of damage from high-impact practical PS-alignment failures (as well as the other previous
premises), things are looking dire. It’s possible that the world gets its act together at that point, but it
seems far from certain.

6. This will constitute an existential catastrophe | (1)–(5).
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