Publishing pieces in the media (with minimal 3rd-party editing) is at least tractable on the scale of weeks, if you have a friendly journalist. The academic game is one to two orders of magnitude slower than that.
Given that MIRI has held these views for decades, I don’t quite see how the timeline for academic publication is of issue here.
Given that MIRI has held these views for decades, I don’t quite see how the timeline for academic publication is of issue here.