I think that short, critical comments can sometimes read as snarky/rude, and I don’t want to speak that way to Nora. I also wanted to take some space to try to invoke the general approach to thinking about tribalism and show how I was applying it here, to separate my point from one that is only arguing against this particular tribal line that Nora is reifying, but instead to encourage restraint in general. Probably you’re right that I could make it substantially shorter; writing concisely is a skill I want to work on.
I don’t know who the “ai nihilists” are supposed to be. My sense is that you could’ve figured out from my comment objecting to playing and fast and loose with group names that I wouldn’t think that phrase carved reality and that I wasn’t sure who you have in mind!
The nihilists would be folks who don’t even care to try to align ai because they don’t value humans. eaccs, in other words. I’m just being descriptive.
I think that short, critical comments can sometimes read as snarky/rude, and I don’t want to speak that way to Nora. I also wanted to take some space to try to invoke the general approach to thinking about tribalism and show how I was applying it here, to separate my point from one that is only arguing against this particular tribal line that Nora is reifying, but instead to encourage restraint in general. Probably you’re right that I could make it substantially shorter; writing concisely is a skill I want to work on.
I don’t know who the “ai nihilists” are supposed to be. My sense is that you could’ve figured out from my comment objecting to playing and fast and loose with group names that I wouldn’t think that phrase carved reality and that I wasn’t sure who you have in mind!
The nihilists would be folks who don’t even care to try to align ai because they don’t value humans. eaccs, in other words. I’m just being descriptive.
Feedback: I had formed a guess as to who you meant to which I assigned >50% probability, and my guess was incorrect.