You can be a moderate by believing only moderate things. Or you can be a moderate by adopting moderate strategies. These are not necessarily the same thing.
This piece seems to be mostly advocating for the benefits of moderate strategies.
Your reply seems to mostly be criticizing moderate beliefs.
(My political beliefs are a ridiculous assortment of things, many of them outside the Overton window. If someone tells me their political beliefs are all moderate, I suspect them of being a sheep.
But my political strategies are moderate: I have voted for various parties’ candidates at various times, depending on who seems worse lately. This seems...strategically correct to me?)
You can be a moderate by believing only moderate things. Or you can be a moderate by adopting moderate strategies. These are not necessarily the same thing.
How does one end up with moderate beliefs without relying on moderate strategies? (In less pressured fields, I could imagine this happening as a matter of course, but I am surprised if someone follows a reality-hugging strategy in AI and ends up believing ‘moderate things’.)
You can be a moderate by believing only moderate things. Or you can be a moderate by adopting moderate strategies. These are not necessarily the same thing.
This piece seems to be mostly advocating for the benefits of moderate strategies.
Your reply seems to mostly be criticizing moderate beliefs.
(My political beliefs are a ridiculous assortment of things, many of them outside the Overton window. If someone tells me their political beliefs are all moderate, I suspect them of being a sheep.
But my political strategies are moderate: I have voted for various parties’ candidates at various times, depending on who seems worse lately. This seems...strategically correct to me?)
How does one end up with moderate beliefs without relying on moderate strategies? (In less pressured fields, I could imagine this happening as a matter of course, but I am surprised if someone follows a reality-hugging strategy in AI and ends up believing ‘moderate things’.)