Scrolling down this almost stream of consciousness post against my better judgement, unable to look away perfectly mimicked scrolling social media. I am sure you did not intend it but I really liked that aspect.
Loads of good ideas in here, generally I think modelling the alphabet agencies is much more important than implied by discussion on LW. Clown attack is a great term, although I’m not entirely sure how much personal prevention layer of things really helps the AI safety community, because the nature of clown attacks seems like a blunt tool you can apply to the public at large to discredit groups. So, primarily the vulnerability of the public to these clown attacks is what matters and is much harder to change.
Yes, the whole issue is that you need to see the full picture in order to understand the seriousness of the situation. For example, screen refresh rate manipulation is useless without eyetracking, and eyetracking is useless without refresh rate manipulation, but when combined together, they can become incredibly powerful targeted cognition inhibitors (e.g. giving people barely-noticeable eyestrain every time that a targeted concept is on their screen). I encountered lots of people who were aware of the power of A/B testing, but what makes A/B testing truly formidable is that AI can be used to combine it with other things, because AI’s information processing capabilities can automate many tasks that previously bottlenecked human psychological research.
Scrolling down this almost stream of consciousness post against my better judgement, unable to look away perfectly mimicked scrolling social media. I am sure you did not intend it but I really liked that aspect.
Loads of good ideas in here, generally I think modelling the alphabet agencies is much more important than implied by discussion on LW. Clown attack is a great term, although I’m not entirely sure how much personal prevention layer of things really helps the AI safety community, because the nature of clown attacks seems like a blunt tool you can apply to the public at large to discredit groups. So, primarily the vulnerability of the public to these clown attacks is what matters and is much harder to change.
Yes, the whole issue is that you need to see the full picture in order to understand the seriousness of the situation. For example, screen refresh rate manipulation is useless without eyetracking, and eyetracking is useless without refresh rate manipulation, but when combined together, they can become incredibly powerful targeted cognition inhibitors (e.g. giving people barely-noticeable eyestrain every time that a targeted concept is on their screen). I encountered lots of people who were aware of the power of A/B testing, but what makes A/B testing truly formidable is that AI can be used to combine it with other things, because AI’s information processing capabilities can automate many tasks that previously bottlenecked human psychological research.