Reasons I would disagree: (1) Bing is not going to make us ‘not alive’ on a coming-year time scale. It’s (in my view) a useful and large-scale manifestation of problems with LLMs that can certainly be used to push ideas and memes around safety etc, but it’s not a direct global threat. (2) The people best-placed to deal with EA ‘scandal’ issues are unlikely to perfectly overlap with the people best-placed to deal wit the opportunities/challenges Bing poses. (3) I think it’s bad practice for a community to justify backburnering pressing community issues with an external issue, unless the case for the external issue is strong; it’s a norm that can easily become self-serving.
Reasons I would disagree:
(1) Bing is not going to make us ‘not alive’ on a coming-year time scale. It’s (in my view) a useful and large-scale manifestation of problems with LLMs that can certainly be used to push ideas and memes around safety etc, but it’s not a direct global threat.
(2) The people best-placed to deal with EA ‘scandal’ issues are unlikely to perfectly overlap with the people best-placed to deal wit the opportunities/challenges Bing poses.
(3) I think it’s bad practice for a community to justify backburnering pressing community issues with an external issue, unless the case for the external issue is strong; it’s a norm that can easily become self-serving.
Strongly upvoted