On improving persuasion and salience among both public and leaders, I would mention that the psychology of making “everyone could die” arguments remains under-investigated. Copium obstructs.
There are several factors, but mortality avoidance is a big one. This phenomena and methods for reducing it are somewhat understood in other fields, but I have not seen it considered much in AI takeover risk messaging.
There is research do be done and experiments to run.
Thank you for the great post.
On improving persuasion and salience among both public and leaders, I would mention that the psychology of making “everyone could die” arguments remains under-investigated. Copium obstructs.
There are several factors, but mortality avoidance is a big one. This phenomena and methods for reducing it are somewhat understood in other fields, but I have not seen it considered much in AI takeover risk messaging.
There is research do be done and experiments to run.
Should I tune an essay like https://out-of-distribution.ai/copium/proposal for LW readers?