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 know about Eliezer in particular and Glenn Beck in particular but I do think insofar as people are trying to do media relations, it’s pretty important to somehow end up taken fairly seriously in a bipartisan way. (I’m not sure of the best way to go about that, whether it’s better to go on partisan shows of multiple types, or try to go on not-particularly-partisan shows that happen to appeal to different demographics)
I think it needs to be Glenn Beck in particular because he actually knows what he’s talking about in a technical sense. He groks concepts like intelligence amplification, AI existential risk, and the fact that AI can improve our lives by bounds until one day we fall over dead. Who else is even close? He’s trying to reach out to people in AI safety, and I think just a little bit of effort can make a big difference.
I don’t think it has to be Eliezer, but I think most other people would try to convince him of less dire scenarios than the one we’re actually in because they sound less crazy. But we need someone to look the American people in the eye and say the truth: we might all die, and there is no master plan.
I think it’s worth being concerned about Neutral vs. Conservative, here; I think it might make sense to not go on Glenn Beck first, but only going on ‘neutral’ shows and never going on ‘conservative’ shows is a good way to end up with the polarization of an issue that really shouldn’t be polarized.
Perhaps we should try reverse psychology, and have someone (not Eliezer) go to a conservative show and talk about how GPUs are a great thing (maybe also mention that Trump’s computer contains one).
Hopefully, overnight all high-status liberals will become in favor of banning GPUs. Problem solved.
And a way to be taken less seriously by the liberals and progressives who dominate almost all US institutions.
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 know about Eliezer in particular and Glenn Beck in particular but I do think insofar as people are trying to do media relations, it’s pretty important to somehow end up taken fairly seriously in a bipartisan way. (I’m not sure of the best way to go about that, whether it’s better to go on partisan shows of multiple types, or try to go on not-particularly-partisan shows that happen to appeal to different demographics)
I think it needs to be Glenn Beck in particular because he actually knows what he’s talking about in a technical sense. He groks concepts like intelligence amplification, AI existential risk, and the fact that AI can improve our lives by bounds until one day we fall over dead. Who else is even close? He’s trying to reach out to people in AI safety, and I think just a little bit of effort can make a big difference.
I don’t think it has to be Eliezer, but I think most other people would try to convince him of less dire scenarios than the one we’re actually in because they sound less crazy. But we need someone to look the American people in the eye and say the truth: we might all die, and there is no master plan.
I think it’s worth being concerned about Neutral vs. Conservative, here; I think it might make sense to not go on Glenn Beck first, but only going on ‘neutral’ shows and never going on ‘conservative’ shows is a good way to end up with the polarization of an issue that really shouldn’t be polarized.
Perhaps we should try reverse psychology, and have someone (not Eliezer) go to a conservative show and talk about how GPUs are a great thing (maybe also mention that Trump’s computer contains one).
Hopefully, overnight all high-status liberals will become in favor of banning GPUs. Problem solved.
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