Raemon endorsed the Superintelligence FAQ for laymen. He recommended a different one for ML engineers but I don’t know where to find that comment. This was a couple months ago so he might have found something even better since then.
I recommend Yudkowsky’s The Power Of Intelligence. It has superb quotes like “Intelligence is as real as electricity”, and in my experience, one of the biggest hurdles is convincing someone that AI actually does dominate all other calculations about the fate of the earth. Once you pass that hurdle, the person will be less likely to see it as a flex on your end, and more likely to see it as something worth their time to look into.
I also tentatively recommend Tuning Your Cognitive Strategies, as it lets people get an actual up-close look at what intelligence is. Plus, it’s very accessible for allowing people to contribute; any findings that anyone discovers might end up being pretty huge discoveries in the history of human intelligence augmentation (which is endorsed for potentially being an ace-in-the-hole for solving alignment, and anyone can contribute).
Raemon endorsed the Superintelligence FAQ for laymen. He recommended a different one for ML engineers but I don’t know where to find that comment. This was a couple months ago so he might have found something even better since then.
I recommend Yudkowsky’s The Power Of Intelligence. It has superb quotes like “Intelligence is as real as electricity”, and in my experience, one of the biggest hurdles is convincing someone that AI actually does dominate all other calculations about the fate of the earth. Once you pass that hurdle, the person will be less likely to see it as a flex on your end, and more likely to see it as something worth their time to look into.
I also tentatively recommend Tuning Your Cognitive Strategies, as it lets people get an actual up-close look at what intelligence is. Plus, it’s very accessible for allowing people to contribute; any findings that anyone discovers might end up being pretty huge discoveries in the history of human intelligence augmentation (which is endorsed for potentially being an ace-in-the-hole for solving alignment, and anyone can contribute).