Based on occasional conversations with new people, I would not be surprised if a majority of people who got into alignment between April 2022 and April 2023 did so mainly because of this post. Most of them say something like “man, I did not realize how dire the situation looked” or “I thought the MIRI folks were on it or something”.
This seems quite unlikely to be true to me, but might depend on what you consider to be “got into alignment”. (Or, if you are weighting by importance, it might depend on the weighting.)
I don’t know about most, which seems like a high bar, but it’s been a very common thing I’ve heard among newcomers I’ve interfaced with in the last 1-2 years. It’s definitely the single post I’ve seen most frequently cited.
Based on occasional conversations with new people, I would not be surprised if a majority of people who got into alignment between April 2022 and April 2023 did so mainly because of this post. Most of them say something like “man, I did not realize how dire the situation looked” or “I thought the MIRI folks were on it or something”.
This seems quite unlikely to be true to me, but might depend on what you consider to be “got into alignment”. (Or, if you are weighting by importance, it might depend on the weighting.)
I don’t know about most, which seems like a high bar, but it’s been a very common thing I’ve heard among newcomers I’ve interfaced with in the last 1-2 years. It’s definitely the single post I’ve seen most frequently cited.