This posts SEO on google or DDG is not the point I’m looking to make. Like @Said Achmiz I too got https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-risk when googling. I clicked on it then went to the most click-baity post title. (“Die with dignity” nails this pretty well). Hence it being the first post I came across when googling less-wrong.
It’s a very prominent post which I believe makes the doom it predicts more likely by either dissuading people from getting involved in AIS or empowering those who oppose it.
To make a comparison to another field; “climate doomism” has replaced climate denialism in recent years. Why would promoting that we’re doomed be a net positive for AI alignment?
Not what comes up for me, when I go incognito and google AI risk lesswrong.
Another data point. Searching for “AI risk lesswrong” (without the quotes) in:
DDG, non-incognito: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WXvt8bxYnwBYpy9oT/the-main-sources-of-ai-risk DDG, incognito: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WXvt8bxYnwBYpy9oT/the-main-sources-of-ai-risk Google, non-incognito: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-risk Google, incognito: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-risk
This posts SEO on google or DDG is not the point I’m looking to make. Like @Said Achmiz I too got https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-risk when googling. I clicked on it then went to the most click-baity post title. (“Die with dignity” nails this pretty well). Hence it being the first post I came across when googling less-wrong.
It’s a very prominent post which I believe makes the doom it predicts more likely by either dissuading people from getting involved in AIS or empowering those who oppose it.
To make a comparison to another field; “climate doomism” has replaced climate denialism in recent years. Why would promoting that we’re doomed be a net positive for AI alignment?