If he was so gagged and couldn’t speak his real mind, he could simply not speak at all. I don’t think Meta gives him detailed instructions about how much time he has to spend on Twitter arguing against and ridiculing people worried about AI safety to such an extent. This feels like a personal chip on the shoulder for him, from someone who’s seen his increasingly dismissive takes on the topic during the last weeks.
Yeah, that’s true. Still, in the process of such arguing, he could run into an individual point that he couldn’t think of a good argument against. At that moment, I could see him being tempted to say “Hmm, all right, that’s a fair point”, then thinking about HR asking him to explain why he posted that, and instead resorting to “Your fearmongering is hurting people”. (I think the name is “argument from consequences”.)
If he was so gagged and couldn’t speak his real mind, he could simply not speak at all. I don’t think Meta gives him detailed instructions about how much time he has to spend on Twitter arguing against and ridiculing people worried about AI safety to such an extent. This feels like a personal chip on the shoulder for him, from someone who’s seen his increasingly dismissive takes on the topic during the last weeks.
Yeah, that’s true. Still, in the process of such arguing, he could run into an individual point that he couldn’t think of a good argument against. At that moment, I could see him being tempted to say “Hmm, all right, that’s a fair point”, then thinking about HR asking him to explain why he posted that, and instead resorting to “Your fearmongering is hurting people”. (I think the name is “argument from consequences”.)