Good comms for people who don’t share your background assumptions is often really hard!
That said I’d definitely encourage Akash and other people who understand both the AI safety arguments and policymakers to try to convey this well.
Maybe I’ll take a swing at this myself at some point soon; I suspect I don’t really know what policymakers’ cruxes were or how to speak their language but at least I’ve lived in DC before.
Then this seems to be an entirely different problem?
At the very least, resolving substantial differences in background assumptions is going to take a lot more than a ‘short presentation’.
And it’s very likely those in actual decision making positions will be much less charitable than me, since their secretaries receive hundreds or thousands of such petitions every week.
I’m not suggesting to the short argument should resolve those background assumptions, I’m suggesting that a good argument for people who don’t share those assumptions roughly entails being able to understand someone else’s assumptions well enough to speak their language and craft a persuasive and true argument on their terms.
Good comms for people who don’t share your background assumptions is often really hard!
That said I’d definitely encourage Akash and other people who understand both the AI safety arguments and policymakers to try to convey this well.
Maybe I’ll take a swing at this myself at some point soon; I suspect I don’t really know what policymakers’ cruxes were or how to speak their language but at least I’ve lived in DC before.
Then this seems to be an entirely different problem?
At the very least, resolving substantial differences in background assumptions is going to take a lot more than a ‘short presentation’.
And it’s very likely those in actual decision making positions will be much less charitable than me, since their secretaries receive hundreds or thousands of such petitions every week.
I’m not suggesting to the short argument should resolve those background assumptions, I’m suggesting that a good argument for people who don’t share those assumptions roughly entails being able to understand someone else’s assumptions well enough to speak their language and craft a persuasive and true argument on their terms.