I also think that the fact that AI safety thinking is so much driven by these fear + distraction patterns, is what’s behind the general flail-y nature of so much AI safety work. There’s a lot of, “I have to do something! This is something! Therefore, I will do this!”
I agree… and also, I want to be careful of stereotypes here.
Like, I totally saw a lot of flail nature in what folk were doing when I was immersed in this world years ago.
But I also saw a lot of faux calmness and reasonableness. That’s another face of this engine.
And I saw some glimmers of what I consider to be clear lucidity.
And I saw a bunch that I wasn’t lucid enough at the time to pay proper attention to, and as such I don’t have a clear opinion about now. I just lack data because I wasn’t paying attention to the people standing in front of me. :-o
I also think that the fact that AI safety thinking is so much driven by these fear + distraction patterns, is what’s behind the general flail-y nature of so much AI safety work. There’s a lot of, “I have to do something! This is something! Therefore, I will do this!”
I agree… and also, I want to be careful of stereotypes here.
Like, I totally saw a lot of flail nature in what folk were doing when I was immersed in this world years ago.
But I also saw a lot of faux calmness and reasonableness. That’s another face of this engine.
And I saw some glimmers of what I consider to be clear lucidity.
And I saw a bunch that I wasn’t lucid enough at the time to pay proper attention to, and as such I don’t have a clear opinion about now. I just lack data because I wasn’t paying attention to the people standing in front of me. :-o
But with that caveat: yes, I agree.