I found it helpful because it put me in the frame of a alien biological intelligence rather than an AI because I have lots of preconceptions about AIs and it’s it’s easy to implicitly think in terms of expected utility maximizers or tools or whatever. While if I’m imagining an octopus, I’m kind of imagining humans, but a bit weirder and more alien, and I would not trust humans
I found it helpful because it put me in the frame of a alien biological intelligence rather than an AI because I have lots of preconceptions about AIs and it’s it’s easy to implicitly think in terms of expected utility maximizers or tools or whatever. While if I’m imagining an octopus, I’m kind of imagining humans, but a bit weirder and more alien, and I would not trust humans