absence of evidence of good arguments against it is evidence of the absence of said arguments. (tl;dr—AI Safety people, engage with 1a3orn more!)
There are many (edit: 2) comments responding and offering to talk. 1a3orn doesn’t appear to have replied to any of these comments. (To be clear, I’m not saying they’re under any obligation here, just that there isn’t a absence of attempted engagement and thus you shouldn’t update in the direction you seem to be updating here.)
a) r.e. Twitter, almost tautologically true I’m sure. I think it is a bit of signal though, just very noisy. And one of the few ways for non-Bay people such as myself to try to get a sense of the pulse of the Bay, though obviously very prone to error, and perhaps not worth doing at all.
There are many (edit: 2) comments responding and offering to talk. 1a3orn doesn’t appear to have replied to any of these comments. (To be clear, I’m not saying they’re under any obligation here, just that there isn’t a absence of attempted engagement and thus you shouldn’t update in the direction you seem to be updating here.)
a) r.e. Twitter, almost tautologically true I’m sure. I think it is a bit of signal though, just very noisy. And one of the few ways for non-Bay people such as myself to try to get a sense of the pulse of the Bay, though obviously very prone to error, and perhaps not worth doing at all.
b) I haven’t seen those comments,[1] could you point me to them or where they happened? I know there was a bunch of discussion around their concerns about the Biorisk paper, but I’m particularly concerned with the “Many AI Safety Orgs Have Tried to Criminalize Currently-Existing Open-Source AI” article—which I haven’t seen good pushback to. Again, welcome to being wrong on this.
Ok, I’ve seen Ladish and Kokotajlo offer to talk which is good, would have like 1a3orn to take them up on that offer for sure.
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