If you plan to rewrite that letter with a less pushy tone (I agree 100% with the comment from TechneMakre) I think it might be useful if you try to change the framework of the problem a bit. Imagine that a random guy is writing to you instead, and he is telling you to work on deviating possible meteorites reaching Earth. What sort of email would make you compelled to reply?
I’ll rewrite it but I can’t just model other people after me. If I were writing it for someone like myself it would be a concise explanation of the main argument to make me want to spend time thinking about it followed by a more detailed explanation or links to further reading. As long as it isn’t mean I don’t think I would care if it’s giving me orders, begging for help or giving me information without asking for anything at all. But he at least already knows that unaligned AIs are a problem, I can only remind him of that, link to reading material or say that other people also think he should work on it.
But now the priority of that is lower, see the edit to the post. Do you think that the email to Demis Hassabis has similar problems or that it should stay like it is now?
If you plan to rewrite that letter with a less pushy tone (I agree 100% with the comment from TechneMakre) I think it might be useful if you try to change the framework of the problem a bit. Imagine that a random guy is writing to you instead, and he is telling you to work on deviating possible meteorites reaching Earth. What sort of email would make you compelled to reply?
I’ll rewrite it but I can’t just model other people after me. If I were writing it for someone like myself it would be a concise explanation of the main argument to make me want to spend time thinking about it followed by a more detailed explanation or links to further reading. As long as it isn’t mean I don’t think I would care if it’s giving me orders, begging for help or giving me information without asking for anything at all. But he at least already knows that unaligned AIs are a problem, I can only remind him of that, link to reading material or say that other people also think he should work on it.
But now the priority of that is lower, see the edit to the post. Do you think that the email to Demis Hassabis has similar problems or that it should stay like it is now?