We’re targeting a broad audience, and so our focus groups have been more like completely uninformed folks than like informed skeptics. (We’ve spent plenty of time honing arguments with informed skeptics, but that sort of content will appear in the accompanying online resources, rather than in the book itself.) I think that the quotes the post leads with speak to our ability to engage with our intended audience.
I put in the quote from Rob solely for the purpose of answering the question of whether regular LW readers would have anything to gain personally from the book—and I think that they probably would, given that even MIRI employees expressed surprise at how much they got out of it :-)
(I have now edited the post to make my intent more clear.)
We’re targeting a broad audience, and so our focus groups have been more like completely uninformed folks than like informed skeptics. (We’ve spent plenty of time honing arguments with informed skeptics, but that sort of content will appear in the accompanying online resources, rather than in the book itself.) I think that the quotes the post leads with speak to our ability to engage with our intended audience.
I put in the quote from Rob solely for the purpose of answering the question of whether regular LW readers would have anything to gain personally from the book—and I think that they probably would, given that even MIRI employees expressed surprise at how much they got out of it :-)
(I have now edited the post to make my intent more clear.)
I’m very glad you’ve used focus groups! Based solely on the title the results are excellent. I’m idly curious how you assembled the participants.
Do you have a way to get feedback from Chinese nationalists? (“America Hawks” in China?).