Just don’t do this. This isn’t the kind of plan which works in real life.
Appealing to outgroup fear just gets you a bunch of paranoid groups who never talk to one another.
Truth-telling is relatively robust because you automatically end up on the same side as other truth-tellers and you can all automatically agree on messaging (roughly).
The only exception is leveraging fear of death, which is reasonable in smaller doses IMO when talking about AI, since dying is actually on the table.
Because scared people do random things. They may elect someone who promises to protect them, and those person’s goals will be practically random (except for the part where they want to get more power). Or they may refuse good proposals on risk reduction, because everything will seem equally scary. Etc.
Idk if this is true, but let’s say it is true. In my mind, this is still an improvement over the current situation, which is that the public will be unaware while AI lab heads and US intelligence heads rush to build the Machine God and succeed, and then either cause human extinction or build an immortal dictatorship.
Just don’t do this. This isn’t the kind of plan which works in real life.
Appealing to outgroup fear just gets you a bunch of paranoid groups who never talk to one another.
Truth-telling is relatively robust because you automatically end up on the same side as other truth-tellers and you can all automatically agree on messaging (roughly).
The only exception is leveraging fear of death, which is reasonable in smaller doses IMO when talking about AI, since dying is actually on the table.
Why is this a problem? Also remember they all ideally share common outgroups.
Because scared people do random things. They may elect someone who promises to protect them, and those person’s goals will be practically random (except for the part where they want to get more power). Or they may refuse good proposals on risk reduction, because everything will seem equally scary. Etc.
Idk if this is true, but let’s say it is true. In my mind, this is still an improvement over the current situation, which is that the public will be unaware while AI lab heads and US intelligence heads rush to build the Machine God and succeed, and then either cause human extinction or build an immortal dictatorship.
What am I missing?