Unless you work in practical AI Safety/​AI policy, I disagree.
The press is very bad at talking about the scale of problems. For example, they’re always talking about murders, which are not a pressing problem in most parts of the world right now.
The press also tends to focus on the unimportant parts of stories. For instance, when they talk about scientific papers, they often focus on a small aspect of the papers that they think readers will find exciting and blow it out of proportion.
For me also, I often don’t have enough time to both read the news and read a book in the day. I think reading books are much more valuable.
I’m not advocating to get your whole worldview from the news! And especially not your priorities. Just object level knowledge about things that are happening.
Most people in AI safety I know don’t read books either fwiw because their reading time goes to papers and blog posts.
Unless you work in practical AI Safety/​AI policy, I disagree.
The press is very bad at talking about the scale of problems. For example, they’re always talking about murders, which are not a pressing problem in most parts of the world right now.
The press also tends to focus on the unimportant parts of stories. For instance, when they talk about scientific papers, they often focus on a small aspect of the papers that they think readers will find exciting and blow it out of proportion.
For me also, I often don’t have enough time to both read the news and read a book in the day. I think reading books are much more valuable.
I’m not advocating to get your whole worldview from the news! And especially not your priorities. Just object level knowledge about things that are happening.
Most people in AI safety I know don’t read books either fwiw because their reading time goes to papers and blog posts.