Thanks, Luke. This is an informative reply, and it’s great to hear you have a standard talk! Where can I find it? (or if it’s not publicly available, why isn’t it?)
Do you have more details on the 4 page pamphlet? I would be interested in seeing it, if it still exists. Obviously nobody would get from the single premise “This one pamphlet we tried didn’t work” to the conclusion “pamphlets don’t work”, so I’d still be interested in the general case of “Can MIRI reduce the chance of UFAI x-risk through pamphlets?”
Pamphlets work for wells in Africa. They don’t work for MIRI’s mission. The inferential distance is too great, the ideas are too Far, the impact is too far away.
I’d also love to know your reasoning behind this statement:
I am willing to believe the second sentence, but given that it is possible to convince intelligent non-rationalists to take UFAI x-risk seriously (I’ve tested this), I would like to consider ways in which we can spread this.
Thanks, Luke. This is an informative reply, and it’s great to hear you have a standard talk! Where can I find it? (or if it’s not publicly available, why isn’t it?)
Do you have more details on the 4 page pamphlet? I would be interested in seeing it, if it still exists. Obviously nobody would get from the single premise “This one pamphlet we tried didn’t work” to the conclusion “pamphlets don’t work”, so I’d still be interested in the general case of “Can MIRI reduce the chance of UFAI x-risk through pamphlets?”
I’d also love to know your reasoning behind this statement: I am willing to believe the second sentence, but given that it is possible to convince intelligent non-rationalists to take UFAI x-risk seriously (I’ve tested this), I would like to consider ways in which we can spread this.