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We can do more than one thing at a time. (Or, more to the point, different people can do different things.) We can advocate against misuses of current capabilit
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
We can do more than one thing at a time. (Or, more to the point, different people can do different things.) We can advocate against misuses of current capabilities, and advocate about the much larger threats of future capabilities.
- flappyeagle 3y agoWe really can’t. We are terrible at multitasking.
- williamcotton 3y agoIf you look around you’ll see that there are indeed very many people who are doing very different things from one another and without much centralized coordination.
- ethbr1 3y agoParent is likely referring to political/mass pressure behind initiatives. In which case the lack of a clear singular message, when confronted with a determined and amoral adversary, dissolves into confusion. Most classically, because the adversary plants PR behind "It's still an open debate among experts." See: cigarettes, climate change
- Onavo 3y agoThere's a big fucking difference between people who want to regulate AI because they might become a doomsday terminator paperclip factory (the register-model-with-government-if-they-are-too-big-crowd) and the folks who want to prevent AI being used to indirectly discriminate in hiring and immigration.