AI (and a lot of things) suffers from the unilateralist’s curse, where something very bad will be done if many people are capable of it, and there’s enough variation in their cost and benefit estimates. This is also true for a single person, if your own cost and benefit estimate changes over time and you can’t undo what you do.
That said, it’s okay to leave EA to be happier without saying that EA is wrong. I really don’t think the nets polluting the waterways counter the human lives saved. Some things are necessary even if they have harmful side effects. We can’t get rid of the police entirely, just because sometimes bad police kill an innocent person.
AI (and a lot of things) suffers from the unilateralist’s curse, where something very bad will be done if many people are capable of it, and there’s enough variation in their cost and benefit estimates. This is also true for a single person, if your own cost and benefit estimate changes over time and you can’t undo what you do.
That said, it’s okay to leave EA to be happier without saying that EA is wrong. I really don’t think the nets polluting the waterways counter the human lives saved. Some things are necessary even if they have harmful side effects. We can’t get rid of the police entirely, just because sometimes bad police kill an innocent person.