Yes, that sentence stood out and dominated the text and debate in problematic ways.
But if he had left it out—wouldn’t the debate have been stuck at “why pass such a law, seeing as you can’t realistically enforce it?”, because someone else would have had to dare to propose airstrikes, and would not have?
Eliezer isn’t stupid. Like, wrong about many things, but he is a very intelligent man. He must have known this letter was akin to getting blacklisted everywhere, and being eternally remembered as the dude who wanted airstrikes against AIs, who will be eternally asked about this. That it will have closed many doors for professional networking and funding. He clearly decided it was worth the extremely small chance of success. Because he gave up on academia and CEOs and tried to reach the public, by spelling it all out.
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Yes, that sentence stood out and dominated the text and debate in problematic ways.
But if he had left it out—wouldn’t the debate have been stuck at “why pass such a law, seeing as you can’t realistically enforce it?”, because someone else would have had to dare to propose airstrikes, and would not have?
Eliezer isn’t stupid. Like, wrong about many things, but he is a very intelligent man. He must have known this letter was akin to getting blacklisted everywhere, and being eternally remembered as the dude who wanted airstrikes against AIs, who will be eternally asked about this. That it will have closed many doors for professional networking and funding. He clearly decided it was worth the extremely small chance of success. Because he gave up on academia and CEOs and tried to reach the public, by spelling it all out.