“I spend comparatively little time thinking about whether the most likely principal in a superpersuasion-assisted takeover is an AI system, an AI lab, a government, a coalition of the above, or something else”
—Interested in more on why you’re prioritising in this way
”I don’t love the term superpersuasion. However after a small brainstorm to think of better terms, I didn’t have any terms that I and/or other people actively preferred sufficiently”
—I prefer just ‘AI persuasion’. It doesn’t distinguish between different levels (e.g. includes today’s systems), but then you can just say ‘I think risks from AI persuasion will get bigger as capabilities improve’, which seems fine to me.
“I spend comparatively little time thinking about whether the most likely principal in a superpersuasion-assisted takeover is an AI system, an AI lab, a government, a coalition of the above, or something else”
—Interested in more on why you’re prioritising in this way
I now think this is just a mistake. Abstracting away the principal was an elegant move in the initial pass at 5 or even 25 hours, but at the amount of time I’ve already spent on it/am planning to spend on it, disambiguating this seems valuable to me.
“I spend comparatively little time thinking about whether the most likely principal in a superpersuasion-assisted takeover is an AI system, an AI lab, a government, a coalition of the above, or something else”
—Interested in more on why you’re prioritising in this way
”I don’t love the term superpersuasion. However after a small brainstorm to think of better terms, I didn’t have any terms that I and/or other people actively preferred sufficiently”
—I prefer just ‘AI persuasion’. It doesn’t distinguish between different levels (e.g. includes today’s systems), but then you can just say ‘I think risks from AI persuasion will get bigger as capabilities improve’, which seems fine to me.
I now think this is just a mistake. Abstracting away the principal was an elegant move in the initial pass at 5 or even 25 hours, but at the amount of time I’ve already spent on it/am planning to spend on it, disambiguating this seems valuable to me.