Why did I like the book so much more than I expected? I think it’s a mix of:
I like the authors’ writing on basic AI risk stuff but I don’t like their writing on more in-the-weeds questions, and I run across their in-the-weeds writing much more in my day-to-day life, so it’s surprisingly pleasant to read them writing intro materials.
Their presentation of the arguments were cleaner here than I’ve previously seen.
I agree re cleaner presentation & thought the parables here were much easier to follow than some of Eliezer’s past two-people-having-a-conversation pieces
I also thought that chapters generally opened with interesting ledes and that their endings flowed well into the chapter that followed. I was impressed by the momentum / throughline of the book in that sense
Why did I like the book so much more than I expected? I think it’s a mix of:
I like the authors’ writing on basic AI risk stuff but I don’t like their writing on more in-the-weeds questions, and I run across their in-the-weeds writing much more in my day-to-day life, so it’s surprisingly pleasant to read them writing intro materials.
Their presentation of the arguments were cleaner here than I’ve previously seen.
I agree re cleaner presentation & thought the parables here were much easier to follow than some of Eliezer’s past two-people-having-a-conversation pieces
I also thought that chapters generally opened with interesting ledes and that their endings flowed well into the chapter that followed. I was impressed by the momentum / throughline of the book in that sense