I don’t think Pause AI’s current bottleneck is people being pro AI in general not wanting to join (but of course I could be wrong). Most people are just against AI, and Pause AI’s current strategy is to make them care enough about the issue to use their feet, while also telling them “its much much worse than you would’ve imagined bro”.
Some people misinterpret/mispaint them(/us?) as “luddites” or “decels” or “anti-AI-in-general” or “anti-progress”.
Is it their(/our?) biggest problem, one of their(/our?) bottlenecks? Most likely no.
It might still make sense to make marginal changes that make it marginally harder to do that kind of mispainting / reduce misinterpretative degrees of freedom.
I suspect the vast majority of that sort of name-calling is much more politically motivated than based on not seeing the right slogans. For example if you go to Pause AI’s website the first thing you see is a big, bold
and AI pause advocates are constantly arguing “no, we don’t actually believe that” to the people who call them “luddites”, but I have never actually seen anyone change their mind based on such an argument.
some of it is politically/ideologically/self-interest-motivated
some of it is just people glancing at a thing, forming an impression, and not caring to investigate further
some of it is people interacting with the thing indirectly via people from the first two categories; some subset of them then take a glance at the PauseAI website or whatever, out of curiosity, form an impression (e.g. whether it matches what they’ve heard from other people), don’t care to investigate further
Making slogans more ~precise might help with (2) and (3)
I don’t think Pause AI’s current bottleneck is people being pro AI in general not wanting to join (but of course I could be wrong). Most people are just against AI, and Pause AI’s current strategy is to make them care enough about the issue to use their feet, while also telling them “its much much worse than you would’ve imagined bro”.
Some people misinterpret/mispaint them(/us?) as “luddites” or “decels” or “anti-AI-in-general” or “anti-progress”.
Is it their(/our?) biggest problem, one of their(/our?) bottlenecks? Most likely no.
It might still make sense to make marginal changes that make it marginally harder to do that kind of mispainting / reduce misinterpretative degrees of freedom.
I suspect the vast majority of that sort of name-calling is much more politically motivated than based on not seeing the right slogans. For example if you go to Pause AI’s website the first thing you see is a big, bold
and AI pause advocates are constantly arguing “no, we don’t actually believe that” to the people who call them “luddites”, but I have never actually seen anyone change their mind based on such an argument.
My model is that
some of it is politically/ideologically/self-interest-motivated
some of it is just people glancing at a thing, forming an impression, and not caring to investigate further
some of it is people interacting with the thing indirectly via people from the first two categories; some subset of them then take a glance at the PauseAI website or whatever, out of curiosity, form an impression (e.g. whether it matches what they’ve heard from other people), don’t care to investigate further
Making slogans more ~precise might help with (2) and (3)