As far as I understand MIRI strategy, the point of the book is communication, it’s written from assumption that many people would be really worried if they knew the content of the book, and the main reason why they are not worried now is because before book this content exists mostly in Very Nerdy corners of the internet and is written in very idiosyncratic style. My intended purpose of Pope endorsement is not to singal that book is true, it’s to move for 2 billions of Catholics topic of AI x-risk from spot “something weird discussed in Very Nerdy corners of the internet” to spot “literal head of my church is interested in this stuff, maybe I should become interested too”.
As far as I understand MIRI strategy, the point of the book is communication, it’s written from assumption that many people would be really worried if they knew the content of the book, and the main reason why they are not worried now is because before book this content exists mostly in Very Nerdy corners of the internet and is written in very idiosyncratic style. My intended purpose of Pope endorsement is not to singal that book is true, it’s to move for 2 billions of Catholics topic of AI x-risk from spot “something weird discussed in Very Nerdy corners of the internet” to spot “literal head of my church is interested in this stuff, maybe I should become interested too”.