Thanks for your post. You noted that it seems less of the audience was convinced by the end of the debate. I attended that debate, and the page where participants were supposed to vote about which side they were on was not loading. So, I expect far fewer people voted at the end of the debate than at the beginning. The sample of people who did vote at the end, therefore, may very well not be representative. All to say: I wouldn’t weight the final vote too heavily!
Thank you for this insight! I agree, as I wrote, that the result is inconclusive. I still think the debate could have had much “better” results in the sense that it could have made people more concerned about AI x-risks. I think that Bengio and Tegmark failed at this at least in part, though I’m not sure whether my explanation for this is correct.
Hi Karl,
Thanks for your post. You noted that it seems less of the audience was convinced by the end of the debate. I attended that debate, and the page where participants were supposed to vote about which side they were on was not loading. So, I expect far fewer people voted at the end of the debate than at the beginning. The sample of people who did vote at the end, therefore, may very well not be representative. All to say: I wouldn’t weight the final vote too heavily!
Thank you for this insight! I agree, as I wrote, that the result is inconclusive. I still think the debate could have had much “better” results in the sense that it could have made people more concerned about AI x-risks. I think that Bengio and Tegmark failed at this at least in part, though I’m not sure whether my explanation for this is correct.