Mad respect for the post. Disagree with your background free speech / society philosophy, re the protestors:
Magnanimously and enthusiastically embracing the distribution of views and tactics does not entail withholding criticism. It sorta reminds me of the mistake of forecasting conditional on your own inaction, forgetting that at every time step you (like other agents) will be there responding to new information and propagating your beliefs and adjusting your policies. You’re a member of the public, too! You can’t just recuse yourself.
I also think democracy hinges crucially on free speech, and I think the world will function better if people don’t feel shut-down or clammed-up by people-like-me saying “the remainder of May 2023 probably isn’t a great time for AI protests.”
This sentence is bizarre! People who take notice and want to help, feeling the protest impulse in their heart, deserve peer review, in principle, period. Obviously there are tactical or strategic complications, like discursive aesthetics or information diets / priors and other sources of inferential distance, but the principle is still true!
Mad respect for the post. Disagree with your background free speech / society philosophy, re the protestors:
Magnanimously and enthusiastically embracing the distribution of views and tactics does not entail withholding criticism. It sorta reminds me of the mistake of forecasting conditional on your own inaction, forgetting that at every time step you (like other agents) will be there responding to new information and propagating your beliefs and adjusting your policies. You’re a member of the public, too! You can’t just recuse yourself.
This sentence is bizarre! People who take notice and want to help, feeling the protest impulse in their heart, deserve peer review, in principle, period. Obviously there are tactical or strategic complications, like discursive aesthetics or information diets / priors and other sources of inferential distance, but the principle is still true!