Instead of trying to convince right wingers to ban FAI, how about trying to convince Peter Thiel to defund SIAI proportional to the number of comments in a certain period of time.
Advantages:
Better [incentive to Eliezer]/[increase in existential risk as estimated by waitingforgodel] ratio
It’s interesting, but I don’t see any similarly high-effectiveness ways to influence Peter Thiel… Republicans already want to do high x-risk things, Thiel doesn’t already want to decrease funding.
Instead of trying to convince right wingers to ban FAI, how about trying to convince Peter Thiel to defund SIAI proportional to the number of comments in a certain period of time.
Advantages:
Better [incentive to Eliezer]/[increase in existential risk as estimated by waitingforgodel] ratio
Reversible if an equitable agreement is reached.
Smaller risk increase, as the problem warrants.
It’s interesting, but I don’t see any similarly high-effectiveness ways to influence Peter Thiel… Republicans already want to do high x-risk things, Thiel doesn’t already want to decrease funding.