Yeah that makes sense. Your points about “bio” not being short for “biological” were valid, but the fact that as a listener I didn’t know that fact implies that it seems really easy to mess up the language usage here. I’m starting to think that the real fight should be about using terms that aren’t self explanatory.
Have you actually observed it being used in ways that you fear (and which would be prevented if we were to redefine it more narrowly)?
I’m not sure about whether it would have been prevented by using the term more narrowly, but in my experience the most common reaction people outside of EA/LW (and even sometimes within) have to hearing about AI risk is to assume that it’s not technical, and to assume that it’s not about accidents. In that sense, I have seen been exposed to quite a bit of this already.
Yeah that makes sense. Your points about “bio” not being short for “biological” were valid, but the fact that as a listener I didn’t know that fact implies that it seems really easy to mess up the language usage here. I’m starting to think that the real fight should be about using terms that aren’t self explanatory.
I’m not sure about whether it would have been prevented by using the term more narrowly, but in my experience the most common reaction people outside of EA/LW (and even sometimes within) have to hearing about AI risk is to assume that it’s not technical, and to assume that it’s not about accidents. In that sense, I have seen been exposed to quite a bit of this already.