Does anyone pushing writing for raising awareness about AI risks to be more simple?
Not inferential-distance-simple, but stylistically-simple.
I translate online materials for IABIED into Russian. It has sentences like this:
The wonder of natural selection is not its robust error-correction covering every pathway that might go wrong; now that we’re dying less often to starvation and injury, most of modern medicine is treating pieces of human biology that randomly blow up in the absence of external trauma.
This is not cherrypicked at all. It’s from the last page I translated. And I translated this sentence with three sentences. And quick LLM-check confirmed that English is actually less tolerant to overly long sentences than Russian.
I think this is bad. I hope it’s better in the book (my copy hasn’t reached me yet) and online materials are like this because they are poorly edited bonus. But I have a feeling that a lot of the writing on AI safety has the same problem.
Does anyone pushing writing for raising awareness about AI risks to be more simple?
Not inferential-distance-simple, but stylistically-simple.
I translate online materials for IABIED into Russian. It has sentences like this:
This is not cherrypicked at all. It’s from the last page I translated. And I translated this sentence with three sentences. And quick LLM-check confirmed that English is actually less tolerant to overly long sentences than Russian.
I think this is bad. I hope it’s better in the book (my copy hasn’t reached me yet) and online materials are like this because they are poorly edited bonus. But I have a feeling that a lot of the writing on AI safety has the same problem.
Who is the target audience? If general population, it is bad. If educated people who identify as “I am very smart”, it is good.