I don’t think that the lack of wide public outreach before was a cold calculation. Such outreach would simply not go through. It wouldn’t be published in Time, NYT, or aired on broadcast TV channels. The Overton window has started to open only after ChatGPT and especially after GPT-4.
I also don’t agree that the FLI letter is a continuation of some deceptive plan. It’s toned down deliberately for the purpose of marshalling many diverse signatories who would otherwise probably not sign, such as Bengio, Yang, Mostaque, DeepMind folks, etc. So it’s not deception, it’s an attempt to find the common ground.
I don’t think that the lack of wide public outreach before was a cold calculation. Such outreach would simply not go through. It wouldn’t be published in Time, NYT, or aired on broadcast TV channels. The Overton window has started to open only after ChatGPT and especially after GPT-4.
I also don’t agree that the FLI letter is a continuation of some deceptive plan. It’s toned down deliberately for the purpose of marshalling many diverse signatories who would otherwise probably not sign, such as Bengio, Yang, Mostaque, DeepMind folks, etc. So it’s not deception, it’s an attempt to find the common ground.