Why the hell didn’t he mention Stephen Hawking’s comments about danger from extraterrestrials? Endorsements from trusted parties are a highly effective shortcut to gaining credibility, especially at the first look, and he didn’t use it.
Peter Thiel’s support of MIRI, for example, is huge because he evidently has been good at predicting before. In laypeople such as the O’Reilly audience, I’ll wager that builds more trust in Eliezer’s arguments than discussions of paperclip maximizers.
The endorsers don’t even have to be experts for the endorsement to help. (Think of Tom Cruise.) I propose that if a nonexpert voice with a huge audience, such as The Big Bang Theory, mentioned HPMOR even in passing, that’d do more to reduce existential risk than three more sequences.
It would only take a few seconds to mention that he was the first outside investor in Facebook (which virtually all the audience will recognize as being impressive).
This is TV. People use facebook, but like complaining about it. It’s not necessarily a positive association.
This sets up a possible discussion about whether or not facebook is good for humanity.
Do you want people to think of UFAI as facebook gone evil?
Why the hell didn’t he mention Stephen Hawking’s comments about danger from extraterrestrials? Endorsements from trusted parties are a highly effective shortcut to gaining credibility, especially at the first look, and he didn’t use it.
Peter Thiel’s support of MIRI, for example, is huge because he evidently has been good at predicting before. In laypeople such as the O’Reilly audience, I’ll wager that builds more trust in Eliezer’s arguments than discussions of paperclip maximizers.
The endorsers don’t even have to be experts for the endorsement to help. (Think of Tom Cruise.) I propose that if a nonexpert voice with a huge audience, such as The Big Bang Theory, mentioned HPMOR even in passing, that’d do more to reduce existential risk than three more sequences.
For all we know he did. This is the danger of doing this sort of thing as mentioned in other comments.
I don’t think the Fox audience even knows who Peter Thiel happens to be.
It would only take a few seconds to mention that he was the first outside investor in Facebook (which virtually all the audience will recognize as being impressive).
This is TV. People use facebook, but like complaining about it. It’s not necessarily a positive association. This sets up a possible discussion about whether or not facebook is good for humanity.
Do you want people to think of UFAI as facebook gone evil?