Providing these insights can also help us understand why others might not be receptive to working on EA causes, which can be relevant for outreach work.
(Erin commented “people aren’t gonna like EA anyways – I’ve gotten more cynical”, but I’m optimistic that an EA community that better understands stories like yours could do things differently to make people more receptive to caring about certain causes on the margin.)
I have never heard of the ideological Turing Tests that Claire referenced in their post. Those seem interesting. I have felt skeptical about the Turing Tests. That they tell us more about ourselves than they do about AI seems to reflect the nature of my skepticism.
I think that the question of/the definition of what intelligence is will be an important piece of AI. It seems that this question/definition is still vague and/or not agreed upon yet. Sometimes, I have thought that we probably haven’t delved enough into what our own intelligence is, what makes it tick, etc. to start conferring intelligence to other entities. So shifting the focus of Turing Tests from AIs to ourselves seems like a good idea to me. I can foresee ideological Turing Tests enhancing our empathy of others and revealing biases we had about others.
Thanks for sharing, Julia. I think this sort of post is valuable for helping individuals make better cause prioritization decisions. A related post is Claire Zabel’s How we can make it easier to change your mind about cause areas.
Providing these insights can also help us understand why others might not be receptive to working on EA causes, which can be relevant for outreach work.
(Erin commented “people aren’t gonna like EA anyways – I’ve gotten more cynical”, but I’m optimistic that an EA community that better understands stories like yours could do things differently to make people more receptive to caring about certain causes on the margin.)
Thanks for linking Claire’s post, a great read!
I have never heard of the ideological Turing Tests that Claire referenced in their post. Those seem interesting. I have felt skeptical about the Turing Tests. That they tell us more about ourselves than they do about AI seems to reflect the nature of my skepticism.
I think that the question of/the definition of what intelligence is will be an important piece of AI. It seems that this question/definition is still vague and/or not agreed upon yet. Sometimes, I have thought that we probably haven’t delved enough into what our own intelligence is, what makes it tick, etc. to start conferring intelligence to other entities. So shifting the focus of Turing Tests from AIs to ourselves seems like a good idea to me. I can foresee ideological Turing Tests enhancing our empathy of others and revealing biases we had about others.
I think the idea is from Bryan Caplan originally: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html