Someone should work on this. This should be its own science, probably an area of study for people not good enough at math to do alignment research, or something. It seems like there’s tons of easily-shared low hanging fruit here with family psychology. The failure rate with parents and grandparents is just too high. I successfully convinced both of my parents to take AI safety seriously (they are in their 60s), but my attempts to persuade them to go for cryonics didn’t go well.
Right now, the strategy I’m trying is “figure out how to successfully approach them such that you ultimately convince them to read HPMOR” and I’ve already got one of them to start reading it and they’re loving it, but it’s easier to imagine that failing than succeeding e.g. they say “A agree with Harry with most of his statements but not everything, including cryonics” and they stick with that stance before they even get to the last third of HPMOR when cryonics stops being something Harry rants about and starts being real.
Projectlawful is obviously a no-go, the first quarter of the story is meeting all these interesting relatable people, ~50% of whom are completely failing to realize that their day-to-day life is a distraction from the fact that they ought to be dropping everything and trying as hard as they can to die all the way ASAP so that they don’t get infinite torture (not a spoiler). Yud and Hanson’s dual posts supporting cryonics didn’t work at all, failed the first impression in fact. I’m thinking that in order for it to work, it needs to 1) dazzle the way that HPMOR dazzles people, and 2) successfully convince them to notice that the society and culture they grew up in is confused, ill, and deranged. On the front of #2, obviously eliezerfic and the sequences are good, but the first 5 pages of Bostrom’s paper existential risk as a global priority might also go a long way to show them that orienting towards reality means orienting away from the unreality that’s currently dominant in every country. Has anyone tried chapter 1 of WWOTF? Are there lots of moments with highly optimal combinations of words there?
I‘ve just read „Think Again“ from Adam Grant.
If vaccine whisperers succeed in convincing lots of anti-vaxxers to eventually protect their children, their approach may generalize. Even more impressive is the case of Daryl Davis, an Afro-American musician, talking hundreds of KKK members out of their white supremacist worldview.
Someone should work on this. This should be its own science, probably an area of study for people not good enough at math to do alignment research, or something. It seems like there’s tons of easily-shared low hanging fruit here with family psychology. The failure rate with parents and grandparents is just too high. I successfully convinced both of my parents to take AI safety seriously (they are in their 60s), but my attempts to persuade them to go for cryonics didn’t go well.
Right now, the strategy I’m trying is “figure out how to successfully approach them such that you ultimately convince them to read HPMOR” and I’ve already got one of them to start reading it and they’re loving it, but it’s easier to imagine that failing than succeeding e.g. they say “A agree with Harry with most of his statements but not everything, including cryonics” and they stick with that stance before they even get to the last third of HPMOR when cryonics stops being something Harry rants about and starts being real.
Projectlawful is obviously a no-go, the first quarter of the story is meeting all these interesting relatable people, ~50% of whom are completely failing to realize that their day-to-day life is a distraction from the fact that they ought to be dropping everything and trying as hard as they can to die all the way ASAP so that they don’t get infinite torture (not a spoiler). Yud and Hanson’s dual posts supporting cryonics didn’t work at all, failed the first impression in fact. I’m thinking that in order for it to work, it needs to 1) dazzle the way that HPMOR dazzles people, and 2) successfully convince them to notice that the society and culture they grew up in is confused, ill, and deranged. On the front of #2, obviously eliezerfic and the sequences are good, but the first 5 pages of Bostrom’s paper existential risk as a global priority might also go a long way to show them that orienting towards reality means orienting away from the unreality that’s currently dominant in every country. Has anyone tried chapter 1 of WWOTF? Are there lots of moments with highly optimal combinations of words there?
What about Wait But Why?
Good idea, but I tried that and sadly it didn’t work.
I‘ve just read „Think Again“ from Adam Grant. If vaccine whisperers succeed in convincing lots of anti-vaxxers to eventually protect their children, their approach may generalize. Even more impressive is the case of Daryl Davis, an Afro-American musician, talking hundreds of KKK members out of their white supremacist worldview.