I don’t want to sound overly dramatic, but the entire truth seeking and AI safety project could be hampered by association.
I think I addressed your points already in an earlier comment and would be interested if you could read that and give any further thoughts. But to elaborate on this point, I’m quite worried about this risk as well, but decided that it’s worth having this discussion here anyway due to countervailing risk of not discussing it here (as described in above linked comment). I did bring up the topic in various comments first to give people a chance to push back if they thought we should avoid talking about it altogether, and nobody did or even expressed disapproval via downvotes as far as I can tell. The mods here also seem to think that limiting political talk to “personal blogposts” is sufficient safeguard (but I actually think that’s probably not enough for discussing object-level political topics so I’m trying to avoid that as much as possible).
I think I addressed your points already in an earlier comment and would be interested if you could read that and give any further thoughts. But to elaborate on this point, I’m quite worried about this risk as well, but decided that it’s worth having this discussion here anyway due to countervailing risk of not discussing it here (as described in above linked comment). I did bring up the topic in various comments first to give people a chance to push back if they thought we should avoid talking about it altogether, and nobody did or even expressed disapproval via downvotes as far as I can tell. The mods here also seem to think that limiting political talk to “personal blogposts” is sufficient safeguard (but I actually think that’s probably not enough for discussing object-level political topics so I’m trying to avoid that as much as possible).