The risk is that a niche candidate will make the idea too associated with them, which will let everyone else off the hook—it’s easy to dismiss a weirdo talking about weird stuff.
A better direction might be to find a second tier candidate that wants to differentiate themselves, and help them with good snappy talking points that sound good in a debate. I think that’s both higher impact and has a much smaller chance of pushing things in the wrong direction accidentally.
Let me suggest a different direction.
The risk is that a niche candidate will make the idea too associated with them, which will let everyone else off the hook—it’s easy to dismiss a weirdo talking about weird stuff.
A better direction might be to find a second tier candidate that wants to differentiate themselves, and help them with good snappy talking points that sound good in a debate. I think that’s both higher impact and has a much smaller chance of pushing things in the wrong direction accidentally.
Andrew Yang. He signed the FLI letter, transformative AI was a core plank of his run in 2020, and he made serious runs for president and NYC mayor.