I don’t think that has to be true—people go on conservative talk shows all the time to promote their books and ideas. Liberals don’t care because they don’t watch those shows. Maybe there’s an idea where AI safety people all make a pact to never appeal to conservatives because liberal buy-in is worth more, but I think a weird science guy with non-partisan idea who appears on Fox News is more likely to get invited and taken seriously by MSNBC later.
I don’t like arguing from fictional evidence, but I feel like we’re in Don’t Look Up, and are arguing Galaxy-brain takes about why appearing on the popular talk show to talk about the giant asteroid is a bad idea actually. Maybe I’m wrong. I haven’t been in the US for a few years. But I don’t think things have changed that much.
I don’t think that has to be true—people go on conservative talk shows all the time to promote their books and ideas. Liberals don’t care because they don’t watch those shows. Maybe there’s an idea where AI safety people all make a pact to never appeal to conservatives because liberal buy-in is worth more, but I think a weird science guy with non-partisan idea who appears on Fox News is more likely to get invited and taken seriously by MSNBC later.
I don’t like arguing from fictional evidence, but I feel like we’re in Don’t Look Up, and are arguing Galaxy-brain takes about why appearing on the popular talk show to talk about the giant asteroid is a bad idea actually. Maybe I’m wrong. I haven’t been in the US for a few years. But I don’t think things have changed that much.