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"If [people who I disagree with] really believed what they said, they'd do [X Y or Z extreme thing]" is almost always a bad argument. Consider the possibility t
by kalkin 3y ago
"If [people who I disagree with] really believed what they said, they'd do [X Y or Z extreme thing]" is almost always a bad argument. Consider the possibility that instead, the people who actually believe the thing you don't have spent more time thinking seriously about their strategy than you have, and you are not in fact better both at being you and at being them than they are.
I'm used to this pattern showing up as "lol if you really don't like capitalism how come you use money" but it's just as bad here.
- mcpackieh 3y agoA less-than-optimal response isn't very indicative of anything, but I think you should definitely think twice when the intensity of the protest is grossly out of proportion with the intensity of the rhetoric. X-risk people are talking about the complete extermination of humanity but all they do is write internet essays about it. They aren't even availing themselves of standard protesting tactics, like standing outside AI businesses with signs or trying to intimidate researchers. Some form of real protest is table stakes for being taken seriously when you're crying about the end of the world.