I think we need a core coalition of youtubers, journalists and politicians who can build influence in the US govt to counter the influence of bigtech and the influence of natsec that exists in US govt by default.
Different youtubers will target different demographics and that is fine. We can build a loose coalition between people who otherwise disagree on lots of matters. For instance a youtuber targeting leftist young urban americans and a youtuber targeting christian rural middle and old age americians can both feed into the same political campaign against ASI, even though they disagree eith each other on many other matters.
I think it is important for most youtubers, journalists and politicians to actually be talking about superintelligence though, not environment and job loss and whatnot. If tomorrow environmental or job loss concerns get addressed, that audience might flip their position, and it is important that they don’t flip their position later.
I think all of the above can be done with integrity and honesty. I can ally with the christian youtuber and the leftist youtuber mentioned above without having to lie about my own position. I’m neither christian nor leftist for example.
We also need a vast number of people spreading panic and fear.
Spreading emotions is way more important than spreading technical arguments, most people look at their social circle and their preferred thought leaders when deciding how to feel about things.
Only a few nerds (like me) care about technical arguments and even their biases are often very socially driven.
Many of these people may not do anything productive besides spreading emotions via like/share/subscribe. This is fine. A few people will be motivated to take the big next step and actually devote some years of their life fulltime to growing the movement. This is good.
Yes, spreading panic is increasing human suffering. This might even increase number of suicides. I support providing mental health resources to such people. I am fine with all this happening.
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I think we need a core coalition of youtubers, journalists and politicians who can build influence in the US govt to counter the influence of bigtech and the influence of natsec that exists in US govt by default.
Different youtubers will target different demographics and that is fine. We can build a loose coalition between people who otherwise disagree on lots of matters. For instance a youtuber targeting leftist young urban americans and a youtuber targeting christian rural middle and old age americians can both feed into the same political campaign against ASI, even though they disagree eith each other on many other matters.
I think it is important for most youtubers, journalists and politicians to actually be talking about superintelligence though, not environment and job loss and whatnot. If tomorrow environmental or job loss concerns get addressed, that audience might flip their position, and it is important that they don’t flip their position later.
I think all of the above can be done with integrity and honesty. I can ally with the christian youtuber and the leftist youtuber mentioned above without having to lie about my own position. I’m neither christian nor leftist for example.
We also need a vast number of people spreading panic and fear.
Spreading emotions is way more important than spreading technical arguments, most people look at their social circle and their preferred thought leaders when deciding how to feel about things.
Only a few nerds (like me) care about technical arguments and even their biases are often very socially driven.
Many of these people may not do anything productive besides spreading emotions via like/share/subscribe. This is fine. A few people will be motivated to take the big next step and actually devote some years of their life fulltime to growing the movement. This is good.
Yes, spreading panic is increasing human suffering. This might even increase number of suicides. I support providing mental health resources to such people. I am fine with all this happening.