Aside from whether or not the hunger strikes are a good idea, I’m really glad they have emphasized conditional commitments in their demands
I think that we should be pushing on these much much more: getting groups to say “I’ll do X if abc groups do X as well”
And should be pushing companies/governments to be clear whether their objection is “X policy is net-harmful regardless of whether anyone else does it” vs “X is net-harmful for us if we’re the only ones to do it”
[I recognize that some of this pushing/clarification might make sense privately, and that groups will be reluctant to stay stuff like this publicly because of posturing and whatnot.]
(While I like it being directed towards coordination, it would not actually make a difference, as it won’t be the case that all AI companies want to stop, and so it would still not be of great significance. The thing that works is a gov-supported ban on developing ASI anywhere in the world. A commitment to stop if everyone else stops doesn’t actually come into force unless everyone is required to stop anyway.
An ask that works is, e.g., “tell the government they need to stop everyone, including us”.)
Aside from whether or not the hunger strikes are a good idea, I’m really glad they have emphasized conditional commitments in their demands
I think that we should be pushing on these much much more: getting groups to say “I’ll do X if abc groups do X as well”
And should be pushing companies/governments to be clear whether their objection is “X policy is net-harmful regardless of whether anyone else does it” vs “X is net-harmful for us if we’re the only ones to do it”
[I recognize that some of this pushing/clarification might make sense privately, and that groups will be reluctant to stay stuff like this publicly because of posturing and whatnot.]
(While I like it being directed towards coordination, it would not actually make a difference, as it won’t be the case that all AI companies want to stop, and so it would still not be of great significance. The thing that works is a gov-supported ban on developing ASI anywhere in the world. A commitment to stop if everyone else stops doesn’t actually come into force unless everyone is required to stop anyway.
An ask that works is, e.g., “tell the government they need to stop everyone, including us”.)