I feel hesitant sharing this call to action in circles that would go to protests because they feel “stronger than gpt4” is a ridiculously lightweight ask and I’ll get heavily criticized for endorsing it with a share. not to mention that the non-lesswrong link doesn’t explain why, and lesswrong links are generally frowned upon hard in most such contexts, as the site is considered to be classical liberal and unwilling to reject status quo. why not also ask for gpt4 to be deleted, I would expect them to say. it’s like, why bother going to a protest that is only asking for a pause? isn’t the whole point that we don’t want capital’s ais at all? why are we protesting for a pause rather than a stop? or so. and yet, I also expect any possible demand to not be honored. I do agree with all of those points, though I worry the backfire from #2 will be far stronger than the first-order impact. I’ll share it anyhow, but I feel like these protests are ignoring feedback like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M that would need to be considered and incorporated in at least an acknowledging way in order to get movement in the existing political circles that would push for action.
edit: oh, those are facebook links I managed to not mentally parse as links. I’ll copy and paste the body, then.
edit #2: I copy and pasted it into a “give me the raw markdown from a paste” site, so that I can paste it formatting-included into discord. maybe this will help others https://www.pastetomarkdown.com/
I feel hesitant sharing this call to action in circles that would go to protests because they feel “stronger than gpt4” is a ridiculously lightweight ask and I’ll get heavily criticized for endorsing it with a share.
not to mention that the non-lesswrong link doesn’t explain why, and lesswrong links are generally frowned upon hard in most such contexts, as the site is considered to be classical liberal and unwilling to reject status quo. why not also ask for gpt4 to be deleted, I would expect them to say. it’s like, why bother going to a protest that is only asking for a pause? isn’t the whole point that we don’t want capital’s ais at all? why are we protesting for a pause rather than a stop? or so. and yet, I also expect any possible demand to not be honored. I do agree with all of those points, though I worry the backfire from #2 will be far stronger than the first-order impact. I’ll share it anyhow, but I feel like these protests are ignoring feedback like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M that would need to be considered and incorporated in at least an acknowledging way in order to get movement in the existing political circles that would push for action.edit: oh, those are facebook links I managed to not mentally parse as links. I’ll copy and paste the body, then. edit #2: I copy and pasted it into a “give me the raw markdown from a paste” site, so that I can paste it formatting-included into discord. maybe this will help others https://www.pastetomarkdown.com/