I’m not sure I follow[1]. It’s not a perfect match for the opposite (“Have fewer people take MIRI seriously”) but it’s roughly/functionally in the opposite direction in terms of their funding choices and influence on the discourse.
You may be responding to an earlier of edit of mine, I somewhat substantially edited within ~5 mins of commenting, and then found you’d already replied.
(Yeah, I was responding to the earlier version. I meant that in some cases you might want to cause someone to be taken more seriously but not want to cause people to think you take them more seriously (or not want to make that salient, or to make people think that you want them to think you want it to be salient, or whatever). Those are just different objectives you might have.)
I’m not sure I follow[1]. It’s not a perfect match for the opposite (“Have fewer people take MIRI seriously”) but it’s roughly/functionally in the opposite direction in terms of their funding choices and influence on the discourse.
You may be responding to an earlier of edit of mine, I somewhat substantially edited within ~5 mins of commenting, and then found you’d already replied.
(Yeah, I was responding to the earlier version. I meant that in some cases you might want to cause someone to be taken more seriously but not want to cause people to think you take them more seriously (or not want to make that salient, or to make people think that you want them to think you want it to be salient, or whatever). Those are just different objectives you might have.)