I don’t like polarization as such, but I also don’t like all of my loved ones being killed. I see this post and the open statement as dissolving a conflationary alliance that groups people who want to (at least temporarily) prevent the creation of superintelligence with people who don’t want to do that. Those two groups of people are trying to do very different things that I expect will have very different outcomes.
I don’t think the people in Camp A are immoral people just for holding that position[1], but I do think it is necessary to communicate: “If we do thing A, we will die. You must stop trying to do thing A, because that will kill everyone. Thing B will not kill everyone. These are not the same thing.”
In general, to actually get the things that you want in the world, sometimes you have to fight very hard for them, even against other people. Sometimes you have to optimize for convincing people. Sometimes you have to shame people. The norms of discourse that are comfortable for me and elevate truth-seeking and that make LessWrong a wonderful place are not always the same patterns as those that are most likely to cause us and our families to still be alive in the near future.
Though I have encountered some people in the AI Safety community who are happy to unnecessarily subject others to extreme risks without their consent after a naive utilitarian calculus on their behalf, which I do consider grossly immoral.
I don’t like polarization as such, but I also don’t like all of my loved ones being killed. I see this post and the open statement as dissolving a conflationary alliance that groups people who want to (at least temporarily) prevent the creation of superintelligence with people who don’t want to do that. Those two groups of people are trying to do very different things that I expect will have very different outcomes.
I don’t think the people in Camp A are immoral people just for holding that position[1], but I do think it is necessary to communicate: “If we do thing A, we will die. You must stop trying to do thing A, because that will kill everyone. Thing B will not kill everyone. These are not the same thing.”
In general, to actually get the things that you want in the world, sometimes you have to fight very hard for them, even against other people. Sometimes you have to optimize for convincing people. Sometimes you have to shame people. The norms of discourse that are comfortable for me and elevate truth-seeking and that make LessWrong a wonderful place are not always the same patterns as those that are most likely to cause us and our families to still be alive in the near future.
Though I have encountered some people in the AI Safety community who are happy to unnecessarily subject others to extreme risks without their consent after a naive utilitarian calculus on their behalf, which I do consider grossly immoral.