Berkson’s Bias seems to be where you’re getting a subset of people that are some combination of trait X and trait Y; that is, to be included in the subset, X + Y > threshold. Here, “> threshold” seems to mean “willing to advocate for regulations”. It seems reasonably clear that “pessimism (about the default course of AI)” would make someone more willing to advocate for regulations, so we’ll call that X. Then Y is … “being non-libertarian”, I guess, since probably the more libertarian someone is, the more they hate regulations. Is that what you had in mind?
I would probably put it as “Since libertarians generally hate regulations, a libertarian willing to resort to regulations for AI must be very pessimistic about AI.”
Berkson’s Bias seems to be where you’re getting a subset of people that are some combination of trait X and trait Y; that is, to be included in the subset, X + Y > threshold. Here, “> threshold” seems to mean “willing to advocate for regulations”. It seems reasonably clear that “pessimism (about the default course of AI)” would make someone more willing to advocate for regulations, so we’ll call that X. Then Y is … “being non-libertarian”, I guess, since probably the more libertarian someone is, the more they hate regulations. Is that what you had in mind?
I would probably put it as “Since libertarians generally hate regulations, a libertarian willing to resort to regulations for AI must be very pessimistic about AI.”