Thank you for this thoughtful and extremely well-composed piece!
I have mostly been a lurker here on LessWrong, but as I have absorbed the discourse over time, I started coming to a similar conclusion as you both in the earlier sections of your post—namely, the detriment to our discourse caused by our oversimplification of risk. I think Yudkowsky’s “everyone dies” maxim is memetically powerful, but ultimately a bit detrimental to a community already focused on solving alignment. Exposure is something we all need to think more critically about, and I appreciate the tools you have shared from your field to help do so. I hope we adopt some of this terminology in our discussions.
Thank you for this thoughtful and extremely well-composed piece!
I have mostly been a lurker here on LessWrong, but as I have absorbed the discourse over time, I started coming to a similar conclusion as you both in the earlier sections of your post—namely, the detriment to our discourse caused by our oversimplification of risk. I think Yudkowsky’s “everyone dies” maxim is memetically powerful, but ultimately a bit detrimental to a community already focused on solving alignment. Exposure is something we all need to think more critically about, and I appreciate the tools you have shared from your field to help do so. I hope we adopt some of this terminology in our discussions.