Matrice—maybe, if it was possible for people to boycott Google/Deepmind, or Microsoft/OpenAI.
But as a practical matter, we can’t expect hundreds of millions of people to suddenly switch from gmail to some email alternative, or to switch from Windows to Linux.
It’s virtually impossible to organize a successful boycott of all the Big Tech companies that have oligarchic control of people’s digital lives, and that are involved in AGI/ASI development.
I still think the key point of leverage of specific, personalized, grassroots social stigmatization of AGI/ASI developers and people closely involved in what they’re doing.
(But I could be convinced that Big Tech boycotts might be a useful auxiliary strategy).
Your scenario above was that most of the 8 billion people in the world would come to believe with high likelihood that ASI would cause human extinction. I think it’s very reasonable to believe that this would make it quite easier to coordinate to make alternatives to MAGMA products more usable in this world, as network effects and economies of scale are largely the bottleneck here.
Matrice—maybe, if it was possible for people to boycott Google/Deepmind, or Microsoft/OpenAI.
But as a practical matter, we can’t expect hundreds of millions of people to suddenly switch from gmail to some email alternative, or to switch from Windows to Linux.
It’s virtually impossible to organize a successful boycott of all the Big Tech companies that have oligarchic control of people’s digital lives, and that are involved in AGI/ASI development.
I still think the key point of leverage of specific, personalized, grassroots social stigmatization of AGI/ASI developers and people closely involved in what they’re doing.
(But I could be convinced that Big Tech boycotts might be a useful auxiliary strategy).
Your scenario above was that most of the 8 billion people in the world would come to believe with high likelihood that ASI would cause human extinction. I think it’s very reasonable to believe that this would make it quite easier to coordinate to make alternatives to MAGMA products more usable in this world, as network effects and economies of scale are largely the bottleneck here.