Ok well. Lets forget that exact example (which I now admit having not seen in almost twenty years)
I think we need a narrarive style film / docudrama. Beggining , middle , end. Story driven.
1.) Introduces the topic.
2.) Expands on it and touches on concepts
3.) Explains them in an ELI5 manner.
And that it should include all the relevant things like value alignment , control , inner and outer alignment etc without “losing” the audience.
Similarly if its going to touch on niche examples of x-risk or s-risk it should just “wet the imagination” without pulling down the entire edifice and losing the forest for the trees.
I think this is a format that is more likely to be engaged by a wider swathe of persons , I think (as I stated elsewhere in this thread) that rob miles , yudkowski and a large number of other AI experts can be quoted or summarized but do not offer the tonality / charisma to keep an audience engaged.
Think “attenborough” and the planet earth series.
It also seems sensible to me to kind of meld socratic questioning / rationality to bring the audience into the fold in terms of the deductive reasoning leading to the conclusions vs just outright feeding it to them upfront. Its going to be very hard to make a popular movie thst essentially promises catastophe. However if the narrator is asking the audience as it goes along “now , given the alien nature of the intelligence, why would it share human values? , imagine for a moment what it wpuld be like to be a bat...” then when you get to thr summary points any audience member with an iq above 80 is already halfway or more to the point independantly.
Thats what I like about the reddit controlproblem faq , it touches on all the basic superficial / kneejerk questions anyone who hasnt read like all of “superintelligence” would have when casually introduced to this.
I googled “Zeitgeist Addendum” and it does not seem to be a thing that would be useful for AGI risk.
is a followup movie of a 9/11 conspiracy movie
has some naive economic ideas (like abolishing money would fix a lot of issues)
the venus project appears to not be very successful
Do you claim the movie had any great positive impact or presented any new, true, and important ideas?
Ok well. Lets forget that exact example (which I now admit having not seen in almost twenty years)
I think we need a narrarive style film / docudrama. Beggining , middle , end. Story driven.
1.) Introduces the topic.
2.) Expands on it and touches on concepts
3.) Explains them in an ELI5 manner.
And that it should include all the relevant things like value alignment , control , inner and outer alignment etc without “losing” the audience.
Similarly if its going to touch on niche examples of x-risk or s-risk it should just “wet the imagination” without pulling down the entire edifice and losing the forest for the trees.
I think this is a format that is more likely to be engaged by a wider swathe of persons , I think (as I stated elsewhere in this thread) that rob miles , yudkowski and a large number of other AI experts can be quoted or summarized but do not offer the tonality / charisma to keep an audience engaged.
Think “attenborough” and the planet earth series.
It also seems sensible to me to kind of meld socratic questioning / rationality to bring the audience into the fold in terms of the deductive reasoning leading to the conclusions vs just outright feeding it to them upfront. Its going to be very hard to make a popular movie thst essentially promises catastophe. However if the narrator is asking the audience as it goes along “now , given the alien nature of the intelligence, why would it share human values? , imagine for a moment what it wpuld be like to be a bat...” then when you get to thr summary points any audience member with an iq above 80 is already halfway or more to the point independantly.
Thats what I like about the reddit controlproblem faq , it touches on all the basic superficial / kneejerk questions anyone who hasnt read like all of “superintelligence” would have when casually introduced to this.