The post spends most of its time arguing about why ASI is inevitable and only one final para arguing why ASI is good. If you actually believed ASI was good, you would probably spend most of the post arguing that. Arguing ASI is inevitable seems exactly like the sort of cope you would argue if you thought ASI was bad and you were doing a bad thing by building it, and had to justify it to yourself.
What someone spends time writing is an important signal. More generally, what someone is interested in—and spend time on—is one of the most powerful signals as to what they’ll do in future.
“Real views” is a bit slippery of a concept. But I strongly predict that most of their outputs in future will look like it’s taken “AI will happen and we need to be there” as a primitive, and few will look like they’re asking themselves “Should AI happen?”. Because the latter question is just not a thought that interests them.
The post spends most of its time arguing about why ASI is inevitable and only one final para arguing why ASI is good. If you actually believed ASI was good, you would probably spend most of the post arguing that. Arguing ASI is inevitable seems exactly like the sort of cope you would argue if you thought ASI was bad and you were doing a bad thing by building it, and had to justify it to yourself.
I don’t think this kind of relative-length-based analysis provides any more than a trivial amount of evidence about their real views.
What someone spends time writing is an important signal. More generally, what someone is interested in—and spend time on—is one of the most powerful signals as to what they’ll do in future.
“Real views” is a bit slippery of a concept. But I strongly predict that most of their outputs in future will look like it’s taken “AI will happen and we need to be there” as a primitive, and few will look like they’re asking themselves “Should AI happen?”. Because the latter question is just not a thought that interests them.
In context, it’s fairly clear they included the last section to serve as a transition to their job solicitation.