Why is almost every post on the front page about AI safety?
The focus on âAI Safetyâ is getting out of control. There seems to be an illness that is compelling people to write ever longer and longer essays reiterating and neologising the exact plot of Space Odyssey/âTerminator/âThe Matrix/âiRobot over and over again.
Yet to find a post properly explaining why AI is inevitably going to kill everyone beyond handwaves at artisinal protein nanobots (unrealistic to anyone who has studied protein structure and function), or any post explaining how sinking a bunch of funding into yet another AI safety group will lead to a workable solution to this unproven problem.
Can we relegate these dear young sci-fi enthusiasts to a separate shame bin like the Community tab? I just want to get back to figuring out how to help the sick children dying of diarrhea and malaria
As a moderator, I think this post is unnecessarily rude and breaks Forum norms. This is a warning, please do better in the future. (If youâre not interested in AI Safety content, feel free to explore the global health tab, or hide AI Safety posts from the homepage by clicking on âCustomize feedâ.)
Because thatâs what people are writing posts aboutâpresumably due to several recent developments in this area.
I havenât seen any non-AI posts getting dropped from the frontpage without getting a reasonable shot at visibility, so I donât see any need for moderator action at this time.
You can make the Global Health tab your front page if thatâs the main content you want to see.
If you go to âcustomize feedâ on your homepage (the button is on the right just above the âNew and Upvotedâ section), you can create a filter to reduce or eliminate the number of AI posts you see.
As Jason said, itâs been a particularly eventful time in the AI world, so Iâm not surprised there are a lot of posts about it right now. But thereâs also a lot of forum content generally, and weâre certainly not lacking posts about GH&D.