The majority of the entries are crappy 6-word slogans precisely because the contest is explicitly asking for one-liners to slap in the face of the audience. If the most effective strategy to solve something really is shouting one-liners to the policymakers, then I am the one who doesn’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I’d like to complain that this project sounds epistemically absolutely awful. It’s offering money for arguments explicitly optimized to be convincing (rather than true), it offers money only for prizes making one particular side of the case (i.e. no money for arguments that AI risk is no big deal), and to top it off it’s explicitly asking for one-liners.
I think we’re speaking different languages here, since I’m saying that the contest is obviously the right thing to do and you’re saying that the contest is obviously the wrong thing to do. I have a significant policy background and I can’t fathom why anyone would be so hostile to the contest; these people have short attention spans and expect to be lied to, so if we’re going to be honest to them then we might as well be charismatic and persuasive while doing so.
For what it’s worth, this is the second half of that comment by johnwentworth
I understand that it is plausibly worth doing regardless, but man, it feels so wrong having this on LessWrong.
The majority of the entries are crappy 6-word slogans precisely because the contest is explicitly asking for one-liners to slap in the face of the audience. If the most effective strategy to solve something really is shouting one-liners to the policymakers, then I am the one who doesn’t want to live on this planet anymore.
For what’s worth, I strongly upvoted the first comment by johnswentworth on that post:
I think we’re speaking different languages here, since I’m saying that the contest is obviously the right thing to do and you’re saying that the contest is obviously the wrong thing to do. I have a significant policy background and I can’t fathom why anyone would be so hostile to the contest; these people have short attention spans and expect to be lied to, so if we’re going to be honest to them then we might as well be charismatic and persuasive while doing so.
For what it’s worth, this is the second half of that comment by johnwentworth