I think the people who truly want climate change mitigation, but are pro-nuclear and pro-market, may be unwilling to call Greenpeace an enemy, because they regard the real enemy as those who work to outright deny the problem.
An example closer to home may be Taylor Lorenz’s recent video “Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead”, which describes the tech tycoons as “pro extinction” because of their AI accelerationism, and frames it all in terms of the TESCREAL narrative. I think it’s likely that this kind of opposition to advanced AI, will overwhelm the EA-adjacent form of “Pause AI” activism.
Entities are can both be enemies and allies at the same time, entities can be more or less enemies, etc.
From my point of view: accepting to see someone as an enemy only in extreme cases or in the most complete opposition is part of the mindset that I am denouncing.
I think the people who truly want climate change mitigation, but are pro-nuclear and pro-market, may be unwilling to call Greenpeace an enemy, because they regard the real enemy as those who work to outright deny the problem.
An example closer to home may be Taylor Lorenz’s recent video “Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead”, which describes the tech tycoons as “pro extinction” because of their AI accelerationism, and frames it all in terms of the TESCREAL narrative. I think it’s likely that this kind of opposition to advanced AI, will overwhelm the EA-adjacent form of “Pause AI” activism.
Entities are can both be enemies and allies at the same time, entities can be more or less enemies, etc.
From my point of view: accepting to see someone as an enemy only in extreme cases or in the most complete opposition is part of the mindset that I am denouncing.