If one doesn’t plan to go into politics, is there any value in being a bipartisan single-issue donor? How much must one donate for it to be accompanied with a message of “I will vote for whoever is better on AI x-risk”?
Other than the specific cases mentioned in the post I don’t really think it’s very valuble. I think it can be very worthwhile to support politicians because they care about AI safety, but refusing to ever give to any politician outside of that won’t matter very much, since it’s weird, hard to make it credible, and doesn’t change the picture that much (since you’re presumably not donating to most politicians anyway). Plus there are other things you might want to support that can still matter, even from an AI-safety perspective (like pandemic preparedness or technological literacy).
FWIW I’m pretty doubtful of this point about it being weird / or even anyone noticing or caring?
Like, for someone not going into politics, what’s the world in which their $3500 donations to a few AI safety-centric candidates ends up causing fallout? It seems pretty unlikely to me, but maybe I’ve misunderstood the concern
If one doesn’t plan to go into politics, is there any value in being a bipartisan single-issue donor? How much must one donate for it to be accompanied with a message of “I will vote for whoever is better on AI x-risk”?
Other than the specific cases mentioned in the post I don’t really think it’s very valuble. I think it can be very worthwhile to support politicians because they care about AI safety, but refusing to ever give to any politician outside of that won’t matter very much, since it’s weird, hard to make it credible, and doesn’t change the picture that much (since you’re presumably not donating to most politicians anyway). Plus there are other things you might want to support that can still matter, even from an AI-safety perspective (like pandemic preparedness or technological literacy).
FWIW I’m pretty doubtful of this point about it being weird / or even anyone noticing or caring?
Like, for someone not going into politics, what’s the world in which their $3500 donations to a few AI safety-centric candidates ends up causing fallout? It seems pretty unlikely to me, but maybe I’ve misunderstood the concern