I see. You’re not saying “staffers of the US government broadly won’t find this argument persuasive”, you’re saying “there are some people in the AI x-risk ecosystem who don’t think slowing down is robustly good, and won’t find this particular argument persuasive”.
I have less of a disagreement with that sentence.
I’ll add that:
I think most of the arguments in the post are relevant to those people, and Katja only says that these moods are “playing a role” which does not mean all people agree with them.
You write “If people thought that, then why do they need this post? Surely they don’t need somebody to tell them to think about it?”. Sometimes people need help noticing the implications of their beliefs, due to all sorts of motivated cognitions. I don’t think the post relies on that and it shouldn’t be the primary argument, but I think it’s honestly helpful for some people (and was a bit helpful for me to read it).
I see. You’re not saying “staffers of the US government broadly won’t find this argument persuasive”, you’re saying “there are some people in the AI x-risk ecosystem who don’t think slowing down is robustly good, and won’t find this particular argument persuasive”.
I have less of a disagreement with that sentence.
I’ll add that:
I think most of the arguments in the post are relevant to those people, and Katja only says that these moods are “playing a role” which does not mean all people agree with them.
You write “If people thought that, then why do they need this post? Surely they don’t need somebody to tell them to think about it?”. Sometimes people need help noticing the implications of their beliefs, due to all sorts of motivated cognitions. I don’t think the post relies on that and it shouldn’t be the primary argument, but I think it’s honestly helpful for some people (and was a bit helpful for me to read it).
Yeah, I agree with all this.
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