Phil Trammell makes a similar point about how we should update from the fact that smart people refuse to engage with AI risk arguments:
″ The upshot here seems to be that when a lot of people disagree with the experts on some issue, one should often give a lot of weight to the popular disagreement, even when one is among the experts and the people’s objections sound insane. Epistemic humility can demand more than deference in the face of peer disagreement: it can demand deference in the face of disagreement from one’s epistemic inferiors, as long as they’re numerous. They haven’t engaged with the arguments, but there is information to be extracted from the very fact that they haven’t bothered engaging with them. ”
Phil Trammell makes a similar point about how we should update from the fact that smart people refuse to engage with AI risk arguments:
″ The upshot here seems to be that when a lot of people disagree with the experts on some issue, one should often give a lot of weight to the popular disagreement, even when one is among the experts and the people’s objections sound insane. Epistemic humility can demand more than deference in the face of peer disagreement: it can demand deference in the face of disagreement from one’s epistemic inferiors, as long as they’re numerous. They haven’t engaged with the arguments, but there is information to be extracted from the very fact that they haven’t bothered engaging with them. ”