This is a joke, not something that happened, right? Could you wrap this in quote marks or put a footnote or somehow to indicate this is riffing on a meme and not a real anecdote from someone in the industry? I read a similar comment on LessWrong a few months ago and it was only luck that kept me from repeating it as truth to people on the fence about whether to take AI risks seriously.
Yes, this is me riffing on a popular tweet about coyotes and cats. But it is a pattern that organizations get/extract funding from the EA ecosystem (which has as a big part of its goal to prevent AI takeover) or get talent from EA and then go on to accelerate that development (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, now Mechanize Work).
Of course, I agree, it’s such a pattern that it doesn’t look like a joke. It looks like a very compelling true anecdote. And if someone repeats this “very compelling true anecdote” (edit and other people recognize that, no, it’s actually a meme) they’ll make AI alignment worriers look like fools who believe Onion headlines.
This is a joke, not something that happened, right? Could you wrap this in quote marks or put a footnote or somehow to indicate this is riffing on a meme and not a real anecdote from someone in the industry? I read a similar comment on LessWrong a few months ago and it was only luck that kept me from repeating it as truth to people on the fence about whether to take AI risks seriously.
Yes, this is me riffing on a popular tweet about coyotes and cats. But it is a pattern that organizations get/extract funding from the EA ecosystem (which has as a big part of its goal to prevent AI takeover) or get talent from EA and then go on to accelerate that development (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, now Mechanize Work).
Of course, I agree, it’s such a pattern that it doesn’t look like a joke. It looks like a very compelling true anecdote. And if someone repeats this “very compelling true anecdote” (edit and other people recognize that, no, it’s actually a meme) they’ll make AI alignment worriers look like fools who believe Onion headlines.