Some people want to stop human extinction from unaligned Artificial Superintelligence that’s developed by young men consumed by reckless, misanthropic hubris—by using whatever persuasion and influence techniques actually work on most people.
Other people want to police ‘vibes’ and ‘cringe’ on social media, and feel morally superior to effective communicators.
If you have evidence her communication strategy works, you are of course welcome to provide it. (Also, “using whatever communication strategy actually works” is not necessarily a good thing to do! Lying, for example, works very well on most people, and yet it would be bad to promote AI safety with a campaign of lies).
Would bet on this sort of strategy working; hard agree that ends don’t justify the means and see that kind of justification for misinformation/propaganda a lot amongst highly political people. (But above examples are pretty tame.)
Here’s the thing, just_browsing.
Some people want to stop human extinction from unaligned Artificial Superintelligence that’s developed by young men consumed by reckless, misanthropic hubris—by using whatever persuasion and influence techniques actually work on most people.
Other people want to police ‘vibes’ and ‘cringe’ on social media, and feel morally superior to effective communicators.
Kat Woods is the former.
If you have evidence her communication strategy works, you are of course welcome to provide it. (Also, “using whatever communication strategy actually works” is not necessarily a good thing to do! Lying, for example, works very well on most people, and yet it would be bad to promote AI safety with a campaign of lies).
Would bet on this sort of strategy working; hard agree that ends don’t justify the means and see that kind of justification for misinformation/propaganda a lot amongst highly political people. (But above examples are pretty tame.)