What do you mean “he doesn’t expect this sort of thing to happen”?
I mean that he predicts that these costly actions will not be taken despite seeming good to him.
Because neither Ben nor myself was advocating for this.
I think it’s also important to consider Ben’s audience. If I were Ben I’d be imagining my main audience to be people who give significant deference weight to Eliezer’s actual worldview. If you’re going to write a top-level comment arguing against Ben’s post it seems pretty important to engage with the kind of deference he’s imagining (or argue that no one actually does that kind of deference, or that it’s not worth writing to that audience, etc).
(Of course, I could be wrong about who Ben imagines his audience to be.)
Responding to other more minor points:
I mean that he predicts that these costly actions will not be taken despite seeming good to him.
I think it’s also important to consider Ben’s audience. If I were Ben I’d be imagining my main audience to be people who give significant deference weight to Eliezer’s actual worldview. If you’re going to write a top-level comment arguing against Ben’s post it seems pretty important to engage with the kind of deference he’s imagining (or argue that no one actually does that kind of deference, or that it’s not worth writing to that audience, etc).
(Of course, I could be wrong about who Ben imagines his audience to be.)