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Seems like the obvious thing to do would be to comment on LW, not twitter, but for whatever reasons I notice that Iโ€™d rather post here, and I basically donโ€™t expect myself to successfully post my thoughts there, so ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ
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โ€œTom, if it were that alone, I shouldnโ€™t hesitate. Or if there were any single good reason, Iโ€™d tell you at once. The trouble is I have a hundred reasons, none of them good.โ€ -Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett I love this line! Especially โ€œa hundred reasons, none of them goodโ€.
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Thank you very much to Eliezer for writing it, and I very much agree that the thing where it keeps being literally him doing this stuff is quite a bad sign :-(. And not that I expect anyone to be confused on this point, but I will nonetheless actively disclaim being the sort
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> the thing where it keeps being literally him doing this stuff is quite a bad sign I'm a bit confused by this part. Some thoughts on why it seems odd for him (or others) to express that sentiment...
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1. I parse the original as, "a collection of EY's thoughts on why safe AI is hard". It's EY's thoughts, why would someone else (other than ) write a collection of EY's thoughts?
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(And if we generalize to asking why no-one else would write about why safe AI is hard, then what about Superintelligence, or the AI stuff in cold-takes, or ...?)
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2. Was there anything new in this doc? It's prob useful to collect all in one place, but we don't ask, "why did no one else write this" for every bit of useful writing out there, right? Why was it so overwhelmingly important that someone write this summary at this time, that...
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I guess it makes a big difference whether you agree with all (or most) of EY's points or not. If yes, then this list is true and important. (And why aren't more people making lists like this?) If not, then it's one viewpoint out of many.
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Many civilizations try to make a canonical list like this in 1980 and end up dying where they would have lived *just* because they left off one item, or under-weighted the importance of the last three sentences of another item, or included ten distracting less-important items.
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2. There are probably *not* many civilizations that wait until 2022 to make this list, and yet survive. 3. It's true that many of the points in the list have been made before. But it's very doomy that they were made by *me*.
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