Are you saying that you’re unsure if the launch of the chatbot was net positive?
No. (I agree that it was bad, and that pointing out that it was bad is good.) The intent of “I’m not going to take a position on that” was to keep the grandparent narrowly-scoped; you asked, “Why aren’t we?” and I explained a reason why Less Wrong readers are disinclined in general to strategically take action to “shape the public’s perception”, as contrasted to laying out our actual reasoningwithout trying to control other people’s decisions.
No. (I agree that it was bad, and that pointing out that it was bad is good.) The intent of “I’m not going to take a position on that” was to keep the grandparent narrowly-scoped; you asked, “Why aren’t we?” and I explained a reason why Less Wrong readers are disinclined in general to strategically take action to “shape the public’s perception”, as contrasted to laying out our actual reasoning without trying to control other people’s decisions.
In the sense of “A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people”.