Reflecting on it some more, I think the audience I implicitly had in mind for this is (a) people in my rough social network who use the term, not with any strong desire to mock or dismiss, e.g. Constellation, OpenPhil as Habryka mentioned elsethread. I also think it’s even spread closer to home AI pessimist territory (Raemon told me he’d recently used it), so I’d address people just picking it up as the default term for the cluster. Basically people who still wish to engage productively, but have found themselves adopting the term as it spreads. And such people are on LessWrong (and even if they weren’t, I might post here and then link to it).
The Twitter images are less than that’s my target audience and more evidence for negative-valenced usage.
Reflecting on it some more, I think the audience I implicitly had in mind for this is (a) people in my rough social network who use the term, not with any strong desire to mock or dismiss, e.g. Constellation, OpenPhil as Habryka mentioned elsethread. I also think it’s even spread closer to home AI pessimist territory (Raemon told me he’d recently used it), so I’d address people just picking it up as the default term for the cluster. Basically people who still wish to engage productively, but have found themselves adopting the term as it spreads. And such people are on LessWrong (and even if they weren’t, I might post here and then link to it).
The Twitter images are less than that’s my target audience and more evidence for negative-valenced usage.
@clone of saturn @iceman @Herb Ingram I’m responding with this here rather than replying individually to your comments.