If your goal is to discourage violence, I feel you’ve missed a number of key considerations that you need to address to discourage people. Specifically, I find myself confused by several things:
Why the assumption that the target would be AI researchers instead of AI infrastructure (i.e. training clusters and chip fabs)
You claim that the state would have the force advantage, but independent terrorist actors often have advantages against large state actors. Any violence wouldn’t be some kind of organized militia vs. the state. It would be a loose coalition of “terrorist” cells seeking to disrupt and slow AI development.
You assume a lot of association with mainstream AI safety and reputational harm. However, any violence would likely have to come from a separate faction that would seek to distinguish itself from the mainstream. For example, there are a few ecoterrorist and “deep green” movements, but they are clearly distinct from mainstream climate activism, and I don’t think they have had much impact on mainstream climate activism.
So, by all means, we at LessWrong condemn any attempt to use violence to solve the race to ASI that kills everyone. But, if you were attempting to prevent some group from splintering off to seek a violent means of resistance, I think you’ve somewhat missed the mark.
If your goal is to discourage violence, I feel you’ve missed a number of key considerations that you need to address to discourage people. Specifically, I find myself confused by several things:
Why the assumption that the target would be AI researchers instead of AI infrastructure (i.e. training clusters and chip fabs)
You claim that the state would have the force advantage, but independent terrorist actors often have advantages against large state actors. Any violence wouldn’t be some kind of organized militia vs. the state. It would be a loose coalition of “terrorist” cells seeking to disrupt and slow AI development.
You assume a lot of association with mainstream AI safety and reputational harm. However, any violence would likely have to come from a separate faction that would seek to distinguish itself from the mainstream. For example, there are a few ecoterrorist and “deep green” movements, but they are clearly distinct from mainstream climate activism, and I don’t think they have had much impact on mainstream climate activism.
So, by all means, we at LessWrong condemn any attempt to use violence to solve the race to ASI that kills everyone. But, if you were attempting to prevent some group from splintering off to seek a violent means of resistance, I think you’ve somewhat missed the mark.