Do you take the same attitude towards, say, supply and demand? To use a classical example, if, after a bad grain harvest, someone said bread prices were going to rise, would you argue that he ought instead to say the government should consider fixing prices, or the mills should coordinate to add more sawdust into the flour, or that specific bakers will be accountable for deciding, etc.?
Farmers should sell their grain to the highest bidder, because after a bad harvest this induces more supply of grain via imports. The world is better when farmers act like this.
Lab employees should publicly refuse to work on neuralese, because this would reduce the chance of human extinction. The world is better when lab employees act like this.
I won’t be shouting “lab employees will fail to coordinate on refusing neuralese development” when I’m actually pretty unsure and haven’t presented any justification for this claim. It’s a pretty reasonable to anticipate people will coordination on not doing bad things.
Do you take the same attitude towards, say, supply and demand? To use a classical example, if, after a bad grain harvest, someone said bread prices were going to rise, would you argue that he ought instead to say the government should consider fixing prices, or the mills should coordinate to add more sawdust into the flour, or that specific bakers will be accountable for deciding, etc.?
Farmers should sell their grain to the highest bidder, because after a bad harvest this induces more supply of grain via imports. The world is better when farmers act like this.
Lab employees should publicly refuse to work on neuralese, because this would reduce the chance of human extinction. The world is better when lab employees act like this.
I won’t be shouting “lab employees will fail to coordinate on refusing neuralese development” when I’m actually pretty unsure and haven’t presented any justification for this claim. It’s a pretty reasonable to anticipate people will coordination on not doing bad things.