(Full-time Pause AI volunteer here—i.e. quit AI R&D to do this rather than any other AI safety work. Seemed under-leveraged and to have disjunctive value.)
OP’s take seems about right to me. Glad we didn’t completely put you off.
Of course, the main target audience for the march is not LessWrong. It’s the general public and journalists—and politicians who hear from them.
In aggregate, there has been very little investment from AI safety in messaging. Most of the population still hasn’t thought or talked much about superintelligence, and the default response is to find a reason not to. So there’s untapped opportunity.
Timing of the wars on Anthropic and Iran diluted coverage some this time, c’est la vie.
I’m bullish about more shared protest spaces with those concerned with other AI risks. Number went up. Dilution cost was low. Disempowerment is a coherent on-ramp to AIXR. The folk behind the other XR are not dumb, are as confused about AI as any of us, and know much we nerds need to learn.
Very happy to discuss in more detail. Lots of room for ideas here.
(Full-time Pause AI volunteer here—i.e. quit AI R&D to do this rather than any other AI safety work. Seemed under-leveraged and to have disjunctive value.)
OP’s take seems about right to me. Glad we didn’t completely put you off.
Of course, the main target audience for the march is not LessWrong. It’s the general public and journalists—and politicians who hear from them.
In aggregate, there has been very little investment from AI safety in messaging. Most of the population still hasn’t thought or talked much about superintelligence, and the default response is to find a reason not to. So there’s untapped opportunity.
Timing of the wars on Anthropic and Iran diluted coverage some this time, c’est la vie.
I’m bullish about more shared protest spaces with those concerned with other AI risks. Number went up. Dilution cost was low. Disempowerment is a coherent on-ramp to AIXR. The folk behind the other XR are not dumb, are as confused about AI as any of us, and know much we nerds need to learn.
Very happy to discuss in more detail. Lots of room for ideas here.