ostracise capabilities researchers mental gymnastics vs AI danger and AI safety are one happy family mental gymnastics
where the mental gymnastics meme format isn’t making an object level claim it’s just comparing the complexity of the reasoning chains or something
It’s kind of wild tho like Scott Alexander points out imagine if Greta Thunberg and the CEO of Exxon were best buds and nobody blinked because, like, at the very least we all know how persuasion works, if you alienate people they’re not gonna try to see your side of things
I vaguely remember Brian Tomasik endorsing the Humane League and praising their ability to work together with big factory farming corps (or the shrimp people who iirc are mainly just consultants for shrimp farms)
It might work out, humans probably have a zero-sum bias
