I can see a worldview in which prioritizing raising awareness is more valuable, but I don’t see the case for believing “that we have concrete proposals”. Or at least, I haven’t seen any; could you link them, or explain what you mean by a concrete proposal?
My guess is that you’re underestimating how concrete a proposal needs to be before you can actually muster political will behind it. For example, you don’t just need “let’s force labs to pass evals”, you actually need to have solid descriptions of the evals you want them to pass.
I also think that recent events have been strong evidence in favor of my position: we got a huge amount of political will “for free” from AI capabilities advances, and the best we could do with it was to push a deeply flawed “let’s all just pause for 6 months” proposal.
I can see a worldview in which prioritizing raising awareness is more valuable, but I don’t see the case for believing “that we have concrete proposals”. Or at least, I haven’t seen any; could you link them, or explain what you mean by a concrete proposal?
My guess is that you’re underestimating how concrete a proposal needs to be before you can actually muster political will behind it. For example, you don’t just need “let’s force labs to pass evals”, you actually need to have solid descriptions of the evals you want them to pass.
I also think that recent events have been strong evidence in favor of my position: we got a huge amount of political will “for free” from AI capabilities advances, and the best we could do with it was to push a deeply flawed “let’s all just pause for 6 months” proposal.