Agreed, with the caveat that people (especially those inexperienced with the media and/or the specific sub-issue they’re being asked about) go in with decent prep.This is not the same as being cagey or reserved, which would probably lower the “momentum” of this whole thing and make change less likely. Yudkowsky, at some points, has been good at balancing “this is urgent and serious” with “don’t froth at the mouth”, and plenty of political activists work on this too. Ask for help from others!
Part of the motivation for this post is that I think AI Safety press is substantially different from EA press as a whole. AI safety is inherently a technical issue which means you don’t get this knee-jerk antagonism that happens when people’s ideology is being challenged (ie when you tell people they should be donating to your cause instead of theirs). So while I haven’t read the whole EA press post you linked to, I think parts of it probably apply less to AI.
Agreed, with the caveat that people (especially those inexperienced with the media and/or the specific sub-issue they’re being asked about) go in with decent prep.This is not the same as being cagey or reserved, which would probably lower the “momentum” of this whole thing and make change less likely. Yudkowsky, at some points, has been good at balancing “this is urgent and serious” with “don’t froth at the mouth”, and plenty of political activists work on this too. Ask for help from others!
Part of the motivation for this post is that I think AI Safety press is substantially different from EA press as a whole. AI safety is inherently a technical issue which means you don’t get this knee-jerk antagonism that happens when people’s ideology is being challenged (ie when you tell people they should be donating to your cause instead of theirs). So while I haven’t read the whole EA press post you linked to, I think parts of it probably apply less to AI.