The comic still doesn’t make sense to me. I’m not getting from your explanation why that robot killed that human. I can come up with multiple interpretations, but I still don’t know yours.
Which means that your average reader is going to find it completely confusing. And since that’s at the center of that comic (which again, is really cool art, writing, and layout, so I hope people like and share it!) they’re not going to “get it” and won’t really get anything out of it other than “this guy thinks AI will take over for some weird reason I can’t understand”.
As it happens, I’ve spent 23 years in a research lab centered on learning in the brain, doing everything from variations on backpropagation, reinforcement learning, and other types of learning, to figuring out how that learning leads to human behavior. Since then I’ve been applying that thinking to AGI and alignment.
So if I’m not getting it, even after taking multiple tries at it, it’s pretty certain that your non-expert audience won’t get it either.
I went back and looked at your first explanation of the metaphor of the button. I found it confusing, despite having been through similar explanations a thousand times. I suggest you polish your own thinking by trying to condense it into plain english that someone without any background would understand (since I assume your comic is meant for everyone). Then put that into the crucial spot in the comic.
The comic still doesn’t make sense to me. I’m not getting from your explanation why that robot killed that human. I can come up with multiple interpretations, but I still don’t know yours.
Which means that your average reader is going to find it completely confusing. And since that’s at the center of that comic (which again, is really cool art, writing, and layout, so I hope people like and share it!) they’re not going to “get it” and won’t really get anything out of it other than “this guy thinks AI will take over for some weird reason I can’t understand”.
As it happens, I’ve spent 23 years in a research lab centered on learning in the brain, doing everything from variations on backpropagation, reinforcement learning, and other types of learning, to figuring out how that learning leads to human behavior. Since then I’ve been applying that thinking to AGI and alignment.
So if I’m not getting it, even after taking multiple tries at it, it’s pretty certain that your non-expert audience won’t get it either.
I went back and looked at your first explanation of the metaphor of the button. I found it confusing, despite having been through similar explanations a thousand times. I suggest you polish your own thinking by trying to condense it into plain english that someone without any background would understand (since I assume your comic is meant for everyone). Then put that into the crucial spot in the comic.
Yes I agree totally, and will do that definitely. Actually I already started to work on it.