I think this reply is valuable. I have some quibbles with some of the points but I want to make sure I am safe to share them, first.
I’m going to research the last two attempts to someone’s life that were related to the topic of ai risk. If it turns out the aspiring assassins were mainly influenced by the writings of Ziz, as opposed some other prominent rationalist, then I’ll get back to you.
I’m going to research the last two attempts to someone’s life that were related to the topic of ai risk. If it turns out the aspiring assassins were mainly influenced by the writings of Ziz, as opposed some other prominent rationalist, then I’ll get back to you.
Seems extremely implausible to me FTR. Looking at incidents of domestic terrorism against AGI companies, Sam Kirchner (if we’re counting him) was a StopAI guy, so left-wing human-centric anti-transhumanist and close to Torres (admittedly Zajko did praise Torres and quoted such anti-transhumanist stuff too though). Daniel Moreno-Gama was a right-wing (NRxish?) human-centric anti-transhumanist (and racist eugenicist). Amanda Tom and Muhamad Tarik Hussein appear to be generic progressives presumably motivated by near-term ethics concerns, not existential risk (unlike the previous two).
Ironically (with a little amount of bad faith) the one ~criminal activity that I can trace to someone influenced by Ziz is that one of the DOGE guys had an account here where he talked about veganism being necessary prefigurative praxis for a sentience-friendly singularity and praised Ziz when pointed to her in the comments.
I’m aware. I was just describing their philosophical worldview to contrast with Ziz’s ‘vegan anarcho-transhumanism’. But the whole point of Holly leaving rationalism and EA to start PauseAI was because she wanted AI x-risk concerns to reach people with all kind of worldviews (beyond the ~left-libertarian utilitarian transhumanism of rationalism and EA), and this has been a successful strategy hence everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ben Bernanke to Steve Bannon being into AI x-risk now.
I’m going to research the last two attempts to someone’s life that were related to the topic of ai risk. If it turns out the aspiring assassins were mainly influenced by the writings of Ziz, as opposed some other prominent rationalist, then I’ll get back to you.
I think you’re missing the sarcasm? Lumpenspace meant to imply that actually, recent attempted assassins were influenced by AI safety people rather than Ziz & co.
Maybe? Sorry for assuming people weren’t disingenuous trolls trying to derail a very serious topic involving several actual completed murders and suicides for their personal political vendettas.
I think this reply is valuable. I have some quibbles with some of the points but I want to make sure I am safe to share them, first.
I’m going to research the last two attempts to someone’s life that were related to the topic of ai risk. If it turns out the aspiring assassins were mainly influenced by the writings of Ziz, as opposed some other prominent rationalist, then I’ll get back to you.
Seems extremely implausible to me FTR. Looking at incidents of domestic terrorism against AGI companies, Sam Kirchner (if we’re counting him) was a StopAI guy, so left-wing human-centric anti-transhumanist and close to Torres (admittedly Zajko did praise Torres and quoted such anti-transhumanist stuff too though). Daniel Moreno-Gama was a right-wing (NRxish?) human-centric anti-transhumanist (and racist eugenicist). Amanda Tom and Muhamad Tarik Hussein appear to be generic progressives presumably motivated by near-term ethics concerns, not existential risk (unlike the previous two).
Ironically (with a little amount of bad faith) the one ~criminal activity that I can trace to someone influenced by Ziz is that one of the DOGE guys had an account here where he talked about veganism being necessary prefigurative praxis for a sentience-friendly singularity and praised Ziz when pointed to her in the comments.
Not sure about Tom/Hussein, but Daniel Moreno-Gama is self-admittedly influenced by LessWrong AI safety people.
The primary source is The Last Invention podcast.
Lumpenspace has written a Substack post which includes quotes from the podcast. Just as one quote:
I’m aware. I was just describing their philosophical worldview to contrast with Ziz’s ‘vegan anarcho-transhumanism’. But the whole point of Holly leaving rationalism and EA to start PauseAI was because she wanted AI x-risk concerns to reach people with all kind of worldviews (beyond the ~left-libertarian utilitarian transhumanism of rationalism and EA), and this has been a successful strategy hence everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ben Bernanke to Steve Bannon being into AI x-risk now.
I think you’re missing the sarcasm? Lumpenspace meant to imply that actually, recent attempted assassins were influenced by AI safety people rather than Ziz & co.
Maybe? Sorry for assuming people weren’t disingenuous trolls trying to derail a very serious topic involving several actual completed murders and suicides for their personal political vendettas.
I am literally in the same room as Lumpenspace and he confirms he meant that Daniel was AI safety influenced, not Zizian influenced.