Yes! Also I suspect that people who think that AI is by far the most important problem might be more concentrated in the san Francisco bay area, compared to other cities with a lot of effective altruists, like London. Personally I think we probably already have enough people working on AI but I was worried about getting downvoted if i put that in my original post, so I scoped it down to something I thought everybody could get on board with (that people shouldn’t feel bad about not working on AI)
I wonder how many other people are avoiding discussing their true beliefs about AI for similar reasons? I definitely don’t judge anyone for doing so, there’s a lot of subtle discouragements for disagreeing with an in-group consensus, even if none of it is deliberate or conscious. You might feel that people will judge you as dumb for not understanding their arguments, or not be receptive to your other points, or have the natural urge to not get into a debate when you are outnumbered, or just want to fit in/be popular.
Yes! Also I suspect that people who think that AI is by far the most important problem might be more concentrated in the san Francisco bay area, compared to other cities with a lot of effective altruists, like London. Personally I think we probably already have enough people working on AI but I was worried about getting downvoted if i put that in my original post, so I scoped it down to something I thought everybody could get on board with (that people shouldn’t feel bad about not working on AI)
I wonder how many other people are avoiding discussing their true beliefs about AI for similar reasons? I definitely don’t judge anyone for doing so, there’s a lot of subtle discouragements for disagreeing with an in-group consensus, even if none of it is deliberate or conscious. You might feel that people will judge you as dumb for not understanding their arguments, or not be receptive to your other points, or have the natural urge to not get into a debate when you are outnumbered, or just want to fit in/be popular.