Completely agreed on the state of the discourse. I think the more interesting discussions start once you acknowledge at least the vague general possibility of serious risk (see e.g. the recent debate posts on the EA forum). I still think these are wrong, but at least worth engaging with.
If I was giving a course, I just wouldn’t really know what to do with actively bad opinions beyond “this person says XYZ” and maybe having the students reason about it as an exercise. But if you do this too much it feels like gloating.
Completely agreed on the state of the discourse. I think the more interesting discussions start once you acknowledge at least the vague general possibility of serious risk (see e.g. the recent debate posts on the EA forum). I still think these are wrong, but at least worth engaging with.
If I was giving a course, I just wouldn’t really know what to do with actively bad opinions beyond “this person says XYZ” and maybe having the students reason about it as an exercise. But if you do this too much it feels like gloating.