I think “whether to engage in advocacy for AI, and how to go about it” is a pretty important topic. I do get the sense of LessWrong-type folk being really selected for finding it aesthetically ughy, and it seems like a lot of this is a bias.
I think there are separately real arguments about the risks and costs of advocacy, or how to figure out how to have an “advocacy arm” of the AI safety movement without warping the epistemic culture we’ve built here. I’d be interested in a followup dialogue that somehow approaches that with an “okay, how can we make this work?” attitude.
Update: Will curate this in 2-3 days instead. Looks like curation emails currently look a bit broken for dialogues, and we should fix that before we send out an email to 10k+ people.
Fwiw, since we decided to delay a couple days in curating, a thing I think would be cool for this one is to have either a “highlights” section at the beginning, or maybe a somewhat gearsier “takeaways” at the end.
Maybe this is more useful for someone else to do since it may be harder for you guys to know what felt particularly valuable for other people.
Curated.
I think “whether to engage in advocacy for AI, and how to go about it” is a pretty important topic. I do get the sense of LessWrong-type folk being really selected for finding it aesthetically ughy, and it seems like a lot of this is a bias.
I think there are separately real arguments about the risks and costs of advocacy, or how to figure out how to have an “advocacy arm” of the AI safety movement without warping the epistemic culture we’ve built here. I’d be interested in a followup dialogue that somehow approaches that with an “okay, how can we make this work?” attitude.
Update: Will curate this in 2-3 days instead. Looks like curation emails currently look a bit broken for dialogues, and we should fix that before we send out an email to 10k+ people.
I’m down for a followup!
Fwiw, since we decided to delay a couple days in curating, a thing I think would be cool for this one is to have either a “highlights” section at the beginning, or maybe a somewhat gearsier “takeaways” at the end.
Maybe this is more useful for someone else to do since it may be harder for you guys to know what felt particularly valuable for other people.