Thatās the thing that gets me here: the TikTok itself is primarily not mean-spirited (I would reccomend watching it, itās 3 minutes, and it did make me cringe, but there was definitely a decent amount of thought put into it!) Some of the commenters are a bit mean-spirited, I wonāt deny, but some are also just jaded. The problem, to me, right now, is that the āthoughtful mediaā idea of EA, which to me this person embodies, says that EA has interesting philosophical grounding and also has a lot of weird Silicon Valley stuff going on. I think that content like this is exactly what we should be hoping to influence.
Good characterization; I should have watched the video. Seems like she may be unwilling to consider that the weird Silicon Valley stuff is correct, but explicitly says sheās just raising the question of motivated reasoning.
The āwriting scifi with your smart friendsā is quite an unfair characterization, but fundamentally on us to counter. I think it will all turn on whether people find AI risk compelling.
For that, thereās always going to be a large constituency scoffing. Thereās a level at which we should just tolerate that, but weāre still at a place where communicating the nature of AI risk work more broadly and more clearly is important on the margin.
Thatās the thing that gets me here: the TikTok itself is primarily not mean-spirited (I would reccomend watching it, itās 3 minutes, and it did make me cringe, but there was definitely a decent amount of thought put into it!) Some of the commenters are a bit mean-spirited, I wonāt deny, but some are also just jaded. The problem, to me, right now, is that the āthoughtful mediaā idea of EA, which to me this person embodies, says that EA has interesting philosophical grounding and also has a lot of weird Silicon Valley stuff going on. I think that content like this is exactly what we should be hoping to influence.
Good characterization; I should have watched the video. Seems like she may be unwilling to consider that the weird Silicon Valley stuff is correct, but explicitly says sheās just raising the question of motivated reasoning.
The āwriting scifi with your smart friendsā is quite an unfair characterization, but fundamentally on us to counter. I think it will all turn on whether people find AI risk compelling.
For that, thereās always going to be a large constituency scoffing. Thereās a level at which we should just tolerate that, but weāre still at a place where communicating the nature of AI risk work more broadly and more clearly is important on the margin.