I think there’s a very reasonable theory of change—X-risk from AI needs to enter the Overton window
While in principle, as I mentioned, a hunger strike can bring attention, this is not an effective way to do this for the particular issue that AI will kill everyone by default. The diff to communicate isn’t “someone is really scared of AI ending the world”; it’s “scientists think AI might literally kill everyone and also here are the reasons why”.
claiming they did not think for 5 minutes
This was not a claim about these people but an appeal to potential future people to maybe do research on this stuff before making decisions like this one.
That said, I talked to Guido prior to the start of the hunger strike, tried to understand his logic, and was not convinced he had any kind of reasonable theory of change guiding his actions, and my understanding is that he perceives it as the proper action to take, in a situation like that, which is why I called this vibe-protesting.
I don’t get the impression that they are
(It’s not very clear what would be the conditions for them to stop the hunger strikes.)
But why not this too?
Hunger strikes can be very effective and powerful if executed wisely. My comment expresses my strong opinion that this did not happen here, not that it can’t happen in general.
While in principle, as I mentioned, a hunger strike can bring attention, this is not an effective way to do this for the particular issue that AI will kill everyone by default. The diff to communicate isn’t “someone is really scared of AI ending the world”; it’s “scientists think AI might literally kill everyone and also here are the reasons why”.
This was not a claim about these people but an appeal to potential future people to maybe do research on this stuff before making decisions like this one.
That said, I talked to Guido prior to the start of the hunger strike, tried to understand his logic, and was not convinced he had any kind of reasonable theory of change guiding his actions, and my understanding is that he perceives it as the proper action to take, in a situation like that, which is why I called this vibe-protesting.
(It’s not very clear what would be the conditions for them to stop the hunger strikes.)
Hunger strikes can be very effective and powerful if executed wisely. My comment expresses my strong opinion that this did not happen here, not that it can’t happen in general.