Also, the ending rubbed me up the wrong way a bit(!):
“Lastly, I would loathe it if the same selection effects applied to this document: If I spent a few days putting this document together, it seems easy for the AI safety community to easily put a few cumulative weeks into arguing against this document, just by virtue of being a community.”
Is this basically saying that you aren’t interested in engaging in the object level arguments? (Or the meta level arguments either, for that matter?) As you say:
Readers might want to keep in mind that parts of this post may look like a bravery debate.
And:
It’s not clear to me whether I have bound myself into a situation in which I can’t update from other people’s object-level arguments.
Well, no, that was me saying that I thought it was a live possibility that this comment section would be swarmed by people with the opposite opinion in a way which was unpleasant for me. This didn’t end up happening!
Also, the ending rubbed me up the wrong way a bit(!):
Is this basically saying that you aren’t interested in engaging in the object level arguments? (Or the meta level arguments either, for that matter?) As you say:
And:
Well, no, that was me saying that I thought it was a live possibility that this comment section would be swarmed by people with the opposite opinion in a way which was unpleasant for me. This didn’t end up happening!