My model of the world doesn’t find this kind of thing very surprising, due to previous reports like this and this, and just on theoretical grounds. I do wonder if this causes anyone who is more optimistic about x-risk to update though.
On the other hand, the information warfare seems to be pitched at a level below what people like us can ultimately rise above. So for example the misleading APM comparison was quickly detected (and probably wasn’t aimed at people like us in the first place) and this analysis of AlphaStar eventually came out (and many of us probably already had similar but unarticulated suspicions). So maybe that’s a silver lining, depending on how you expect the world to be “saved”?
My model of the world doesn’t find this kind of thing very surprising, due to previous reports like this and this, and just on theoretical grounds. I do wonder if this causes anyone who is more optimistic about x-risk to update though.
On the other hand, the information warfare seems to be pitched at a level below what people like us can ultimately rise above. So for example the misleading APM comparison was quickly detected (and probably wasn’t aimed at people like us in the first place) and this analysis of AlphaStar eventually came out (and many of us probably already had similar but unarticulated suspicions). So maybe that’s a silver lining, depending on how you expect the world to be “saved”?