What I’m doing is trying to help with the wings by throwing some money at MIRI. I am also helping with the stopping/slowing of paddling by sharing my very simple reasoning about why that’s the most sensible course of action. Hopefully the simple idea will spread and have some influence.
To be honest, I am not willing to invest that much into this as I have other things I am working on (sounds so insane to type that I am not willing to invest much into preventing the doom of everyone and everything). Anyway, there are many like me who are willing to help but only if the cost is low so if you have any ideas of what people like me could do to shift the probabilities a bit, let me know.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s any low-hanging fruit that would even “shift the probabilities a bit”.
Most people seem, if anything, anti-receptive to any arguments about this, because, e.g. it’s ‘too weird’.
And I too feel like this describes myself:
To be honest, I am not willing to invest that much into this as I have other things I am working on (sounds so insane to type that I am not willing to invest much into preventing the doom of everyone and everything).
I’m thinking – very tentatively (sadly) – about maybe looking into my own personal options for some way to help, but I’m also distracted by “other things”.
I find this – even people that are (at least somewhat) convinced still not being willing to basically ‘throw everything else away’ (up to the limit of what would impair our abilities to actually help, if not succeed) to be particularly strong evidence that this might be overall effectively impossible.
What I’m doing is trying to help with the wings by throwing some money at MIRI. I am also helping with the stopping/slowing of paddling by sharing my very simple reasoning about why that’s the most sensible course of action. Hopefully the simple idea will spread and have some influence.
To be honest, I am not willing to invest that much into this as I have other things I am working on (sounds so insane to type that I am not willing to invest much into preventing the doom of everyone and everything). Anyway, there are many like me who are willing to help but only if the cost is low so if you have any ideas of what people like me could do to shift the probabilities a bit, let me know.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s any low-hanging fruit that would even “shift the probabilities a bit”.
Most people seem, if anything, anti-receptive to any arguments about this, because, e.g. it’s ‘too weird’.
And I too feel like this describes myself:
I’m thinking – very tentatively (sadly) – about maybe looking into my own personal options for some way to help, but I’m also distracted by “other things”.
I find this – even people that are (at least somewhat) convinced still not being willing to basically ‘throw everything else away’ (up to the limit of what would impair our abilities to actually help, if not succeed) to be particularly strong evidence that this might be overall effectively impossible.