I would not be advocating for inaction. I do advocate for high-integrity actions and comms, though.
I occasionally see these people publicly expressing that the rationalists’ standards of honesty are impossible to meet and saying that they’re talking in ways rationalists consider to be potentially manipulative.
It would be great if people who are actually doing things tried to avoid manipulations and dishonesty.
Being manipulative is the kind of thing that backfires and leads to the deaths of everyone in a short-timelines world.
Until a year ago, I was hoping EA had learned some lessons from what happened with SBF, but unfortunately, we don’t seem to have.
I would not be advocating for inaction. I do advocate for high-integrity actions and comms, though.
I occasionally see these people publicly expressing that the rationalists’ standards of honesty are impossible to meet and saying that they’re talking in ways rationalists consider to be potentially manipulative.
It would be great if people who are actually doing things tried to avoid manipulations and dishonesty.
Being manipulative is the kind of thing that backfires and leads to the deaths of everyone in a short-timelines world.
Until a year ago, I was hoping EA had learned some lessons from what happened with SBF, but unfortunately, we don’t seem to have.
If you lie to try to increase the chance of a global AI pause, our world looks less like a surviving world, not more like it.