I am not entirely sure this is true but even if it was, is the media attention of publishing a book through standards publishers worth putting the authors motives in question?
This isn’t just another novel or self help book, this is a book written with the explicit purpose of stopping the Apocalypse, trying to make money out of it makes no sense in context (unless all the money goes into charity or something like that)
is the media attention of publishing a book through standards publishers worth putting the authors motives in question?
Yes. It’s approximately the whole point. The authors have already produced massive amounts of free online content raising the alarm about AI risk. Those materials have had substantial impact, persuading the type of person who tends to read and be interested in long blog posts, of that kind. But that is a limited audience.
The point of publishing a proper book is precisely to reach a larger audience, and to shift the overton window of what’s views are known to be respectable.
I am not entirely sure this is true but even if it was, is the media attention of publishing a book through standards publishers worth putting the authors motives in question?
This isn’t just another novel or self help book, this is a book written with the explicit purpose of stopping the Apocalypse, trying to make money out of it makes no sense in context (unless all the money goes into charity or something like that)
Yes. It’s approximately the whole point. The authors have already produced massive amounts of free online content raising the alarm about AI risk. Those materials have had substantial impact, persuading the type of person who tends to read and be interested in long blog posts, of that kind. But that is a limited audience.
The point of publishing a proper book is precisely to reach a larger audience, and to shift the overton window of what’s views are known to be respectable.