Being a member of this community seems to requiring buying into the AI-thing, and I don’t so I don’t feel like a member.
I don’t think that it’s true that you need to buy into the AI-thing to be a member of the community, and so I think that it seems that way is a problem.
But I think you do need to be able to buy into the non-weirdness of caring about the AI-thing, and that we may need to be somewhat explicit about the difference between those two things.
[This isn’t specific to AI; I think this holds for lots of positions. Cryonics is probably an easy one to point at that disproportionately many LWers endorse but is seen as deeply weird by society at large.]
I don’t think that it’s true that you need to buy into the AI-thing to be a member of the community, and so I think that it seems that way is a problem.
But I think you do need to be able to buy into the non-weirdness of caring about the AI-thing, and that we may need to be somewhat explicit about the difference between those two things.
[This isn’t specific to AI; I think this holds for lots of positions. Cryonics is probably an easy one to point at that disproportionately many LWers endorse but is seen as deeply weird by society at large.]