Politicians were not understanding the bill as being about extinction threats; they were understanding the bill as being about regulatory capture of a normal budding technology industry.
Whether the bill is about extinction threats is nearly irrelevant; what’s important is what its first- and second-order effects will be. Any sensible politician will know of all kinds of cases where a bill’s (or constitutional amendment’s) full effects were either not known or explicitly disavowed by the bill’s proponents.
If you want to quell China fears here, you need to make the in-PRC push for this book a peer to the push for the American English one. Of course, the PRC takes a dim view of foreigners trying to bolster social movements, so — and I’m trying to not say this flippantly — good luck with that.
(I also think pushing this book’s pile of memes in China is a good idea because they’re probably about as capable of making AGI as we are, but that’s a separate issue.)
How would you recommend pushing this book’s pile of memes in China? My first thought would be trying to organize some conference with non-Chinese and (especially) Chinese experts, the kinds who advise the government, centered around the claims of the book. I don’t know how the CCP would view this though, I’m not an expert on Chinese internal politics.
Whether the bill is about extinction threats is nearly irrelevant; what’s important is what its first- and second-order effects will be. Any sensible politician will know of all kinds of cases where a bill’s (or constitutional amendment’s) full effects were either not known or explicitly disavowed by the bill’s proponents.
If you want to quell China fears here, you need to make the in-PRC push for this book a peer to the push for the American English one. Of course, the PRC takes a dim view of foreigners trying to bolster social movements, so — and I’m trying to not say this flippantly — good luck with that.
(I also think pushing this book’s pile of memes in China is a good idea because they’re probably about as capable of making AGI as we are, but that’s a separate issue.)
How would you recommend pushing this book’s pile of memes in China? My first thought would be trying to organize some conference with non-Chinese and (especially) Chinese experts, the kinds who advise the government, centered around the claims of the book. I don’t know how the CCP would view this though, I’m not an expert on Chinese internal politics.
I have no idea whatsoever, sorry.