My emotional state is relevant here. I’m one of the people who was excited about safety. Then I slowly was seeing how the plan is shaky and decisions are controversial (advertise OpenAI jobs, do the “first we get a lot of capabilities skills the do safety” which usually means a capabilities person with an EA t-shirt and not much safety).
My emotional state summarises the history that happened to me. It is relevant to my case: I am showing you how you would feel if you went through my experience, in case if you choose to believe it.
It’s not a “side note”, it’s my evidence I’m showing to say “I have concerns and this feels off, rather a pattern than a one-off case”. Emotions are good for holistic reasoning.
I don’t have the energy to write a “full-fledged EA post with dots over is and all that”. I mean, I feel I’m one of the “plaintiffs” in this case. I believed EA, I trusted all those forum posts. Now I see something is wrong. I am simply asking other people to look into this, say how they feel and think about this.
So we figure out something together.
I feel I need support. No, I don’t want to go to the FB mental health EA support group, because this is not about mental health specifically—it’s about how the field of AI safety is. It’s not that “I feel bad because of a chemical imbalance in my mind”. I feel bad because I see bad things :)
I have written at length on Twitter about my experiences. If you’re still interested, I can link it a bit later.
For a traumatized person it’s painful to go though all this again and again.
My emotional state is relevant here. I’m one of the people who was excited about safety. Then I slowly was seeing how the plan is shaky and decisions are controversial (advertise OpenAI jobs, do the “first we get a lot of capabilities skills the do safety” which usually means a capabilities person with an EA t-shirt and not much safety).
My emotional state summarises the history that happened to me. It is relevant to my case: I am showing you how you would feel if you went through my experience, in case if you choose to believe it.
It’s not a “side note”, it’s my evidence I’m showing to say “I have concerns and this feels off, rather a pattern than a one-off case”. Emotions are good for holistic reasoning.
I don’t have the energy to write a “full-fledged EA post with dots over is and all that”. I mean, I feel I’m one of the “plaintiffs” in this case. I believed EA, I trusted all those forum posts. Now I see something is wrong. I am simply asking other people to look into this, say how they feel and think about this.
So we figure out something together.
I feel I need support. No, I don’t want to go to the FB mental health EA support group, because this is not about mental health specifically—it’s about how the field of AI safety is. It’s not that “I feel bad because of a chemical imbalance in my mind”. I feel bad because I see bad things :)
I have written at length on Twitter about my experiences. If you’re still interested, I can link it a bit later.
For a traumatized person it’s painful to go though all this again and again.
Thank you.