I’m confident that if there were a “pro-AI” meme with a friendly-looking base model, LW / the shoggoth enjoyers would have nitpicked the friendly meme-creature to hell. They would (correctly) point out “hey, we don’t actually know how these things work; we don’t know them to be friendly, or what they even ‘want’ (if anything); we don’t actually know what each stage of training does...”
I’m sure that nothing bad will happen to me if I slap this (friendly AI meme) on my laptop, right? I’ll be able to think perfectly neutrally about whether AI will be friendly.
I have multiple cute AI stickers on my laptop, one of which is a shoggoth meme. Here is a picture of them. Nobody has ever nitpicked their friendly appearance to me. I don’t think they have distorted my thinking about AI in favour of thinking that it will be friendly (altho I think it was after I put them on that I became convinced by a comment by Paul Christiano that there’s ~even odds that unaligned AI wouldn’t kill me, so do with that information what you will).
I have multiple cute AI stickers on my laptop, one of which is a shoggoth meme. Here is a picture of them. Nobody has ever nitpicked their friendly appearance to me. I don’t think they have distorted my thinking about AI in favour of thinking that it will be friendly (altho I think it was after I put them on that I became convinced by a comment by Paul Christiano that there’s ~even odds that unaligned AI wouldn’t kill me, so do with that information what you will).
I think that “cute” image is still implying AI is dangerous and monsterlike? Can you show the others?
The other is the friendly robot waving hello just underneath.