I don’t disagree with his stance, but am struck that he sadly just isn’t an effective promoter for people outside of his peer group. His messaging is too disjointed and rambling.
This is, in the short term clearly an (existential) political rather than technical problem, and needs to be solved politically rather than technically to buy time. It is almost certainly solvable in the political sphere at least.
As an existence proof we have a significant percentage of western world’s pop stressing about (comparatively) unimportant environmental issues (generally 5-15% vote Green in western elections) and they have built up an industry that is collecting and spending 100′s of billions a year in mitigation activities—equivalent to something on the order of a million workers efforts directed toward it.
That psychology could certainly be redirected to the true existential threat of AI mageddon—there is clearly a large fraction of humans with patterns of belief needed to take this on this and other existential issues as a major cause if they have it explained in a compelling way. Currently Eliezer appears to lack the charismatic down-to-earth conversational skills to promote this (maybe media training could fix that), but if a lot of money was directed towards buying effective communicators/influencers with large reach into youth markets to promote the issue it would likely quickly gain traction. Elon would be an obvious person to ask for such financial assistance. And there are any number of elite influencers who would likely take a pay check to push this.
Laws can be implemented if there is are enough people pushing for it, elected politicians follow the will of the people—if they put their money where their mouths are, and rogue states can be economically and militarily pressured into compliance. A real Butlerian Jihad.
Rather grimly, none of that green activism is likely helping on a planetary scale. It raises the costs of manufacturing, so China just does it all burning coal.
The only meaningful ‘green’ outcome is the government funding for solar panel/wind/EVs and battery research over decades has helped make alternatives cheaper, and people vote with their wallets.
Similarly, laws restricting AI research would just push it to other countries who will have no laws on it.
Have just watched E.Y’s “Bankless” interview
I don’t disagree with his stance, but am struck that he sadly just isn’t an effective promoter for people outside of his peer group. His messaging is too disjointed and rambling.
This is, in the short term clearly an (existential) political rather than technical problem, and needs to be solved politically rather than technically to buy time. It is almost certainly solvable in the political sphere at least.
As an existence proof we have a significant percentage of western world’s pop stressing about (comparatively) unimportant environmental issues (generally 5-15% vote Green in western elections) and they have built up an industry that is collecting and spending 100′s of billions a year in mitigation activities—equivalent to something on the order of a million workers efforts directed toward it.
That psychology could certainly be redirected to the true existential threat of AI mageddon—there is clearly a large fraction of humans with patterns of belief needed to take this on this and other existential issues as a major cause if they have it explained in a compelling way. Currently Eliezer appears to lack the charismatic down-to-earth conversational skills to promote this (maybe media training could fix that), but if a lot of money was directed towards buying effective communicators/influencers with large reach into youth markets to promote the issue it would likely quickly gain traction. Elon would be an obvious person to ask for such financial assistance. And there are any number of elite influencers who would likely take a pay check to push this.
Laws can be implemented if there is are enough people pushing for it, elected politicians follow the will of the people—if they put their money where their mouths are, and rogue states can be economically and militarily pressured into compliance. A real Butlerian Jihad.
Rather grimly, none of that green activism is likely helping on a planetary scale. It raises the costs of manufacturing, so China just does it all burning coal.
The only meaningful ‘green’ outcome is the government funding for solar panel/wind/EVs and battery research over decades has helped make alternatives cheaper, and people vote with their wallets.
Similarly, laws restricting AI research would just push it to other countries who will have no laws on it.