Yeah, I’m definitely not disputing that some people will be alienated by this. My basic reaction is just: AI safety people are already familiar with EY’s takes; I suspect people like my parents will read this and be like “whoa, this makes some sense and is kind of scary.” (With regard to differing feeds, I just put the link to the article into the Twitter search bar and sorted by latest. I still think the negative responses are a minority.)
Since he has graduated from begging the question to openly stating that blowing things and people up is a reasonable thing to do I think we should dispense with the politeness that has been the norm around these discussions in the past
In case we have very different feeds, here’s a set of tweets critical about the article:
https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1641230149663203330?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw (lots of quote-tweets on this one)
https://twitter.com/jachiam0/status/1641271197316055041?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1641266526014803968?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/plinz/status/1641256720864530432?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1641280544007675904?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/post_alchemist/status/1641274166966996992?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/keerthanpg/status/1641268756071718913?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/levi7hart/status/1641261194903445504?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/luke_metro/status/1641232090036600832?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1641236230611562496?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/luke_metro/status/1641263301169680386?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1641259371568005120?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/elaifresh/status/1641252322230808577?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/markovmagnifico/status/1641249417088098304?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1641274843692691463?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/lan_dao_/status/1641248437139300352?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/lan_dao_/status/1641249458053861377?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1641246902363766784?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
https://twitter.com/alexandrosm/status/1641259179955601408?s=61&t=ryK3X96D_TkGJtvu2rm0uw
Yeah, I’m definitely not disputing that some people will be alienated by this. My basic reaction is just: AI safety people are already familiar with EY’s takes; I suspect people like my parents will read this and be like “whoa, this makes some sense and is kind of scary.” (With regard to differing feeds, I just put the link to the article into the Twitter search bar and sorted by latest. I still think the negative responses are a minority.)
Worth noting that Matt Parlmer has said: