:) thank you for saying you’ll moderate your tone. It’s rare I manage to criticize someone and they reply with “ok” and actually change what they do.
My first post on LessWrong was A better “Statement on AI Risk?”. I felt it was a very good argument for the government to fund AI alignment, and I tried really hard to convince people to turn it into an open letter.
Some people told me the problem with my idea is that asking for more AI alignment funding is the wrong strategy. The right strategy is to slow down and pause AI.
I tried to explain that: when politicians reject pausing AI, they just need the easy belief of “China must not win,” or “if we don’t do it someone else will.” But for politicians to reject my open letter, they need the difficult belief of being 99.999% sure of no AI catastrophe and 99.95% sure most experts are wrong.
But I felt my argument fell on deaf ears because the community was so deadset on pausing AI, they don’t even want to waste their time on anything other than pausing AI. It was very frustrating.
(I was talking to people in private messages and emails)
I feel you and I are on the same team haha. Maybe we might even work together sometime.
:) thank you for saying you’ll moderate your tone. It’s rare I manage to criticize someone and they reply with “ok” and actually change what they do.
My first post on LessWrong was A better “Statement on AI Risk?”. I felt it was a very good argument for the government to fund AI alignment, and I tried really hard to convince people to turn it into an open letter.
Some people told me the problem with my idea is that asking for more AI alignment funding is the wrong strategy. The right strategy is to slow down and pause AI.
I tried to explain that: when politicians reject pausing AI, they just need the easy belief of “China must not win,” or “if we don’t do it someone else will.” But for politicians to reject my open letter, they need the difficult belief of being 99.999% sure of no AI catastrophe and 99.95% sure most experts are wrong.
But I felt my argument fell on deaf ears because the community was so deadset on pausing AI, they don’t even want to waste their time on anything other than pausing AI. It was very frustrating.
(I was talking to people in private messages and emails)
I feel you and I are on the same team haha. Maybe we might even work together sometime.
Thanks