I think that for the most part, people jokingly declare that their political agenda is mass murder usually actually favor mass murder, or are at least gleefully indifferent to it.
Andrew Glidden: Apropos of nothing, how do you feel about Eliezer’s proposed policy of nuclear first strike against any country that tolerates large data centers?
Yeah, when you remove the part about countries first agreeing to stop building data centers larger than X for the sake of survival of humankind, then it just sounds like senseless violence.
Any proposal “if X, then I would use violence against them” sounds bad if you only leave the second part.
Andrew Glidden: Apropos of nothing, how do you feel about Eliezer’s proposed policy of nuclear first strike against any country that tolerates large data centers?
Yeah, when you remove the part about countries first agreeing to stop building data centers larger than X for the sake of survival of humankind, then it just sounds like senseless violence.
Any proposal “if X, then I would use violence against them” sounds bad if you only leave the second part.