I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

La gran divisoria va a ser la que separa a los irresponsables de los responsables. Mi intuición es que esto va más allá de la estrategia comunicativa, es toda una Weltanschauung. Latour identificó correctamente la cuestión climática como el espacio de entrenamiento y construcción de este parteaguas.

Making everyone feel like there's a fixed pie of resources and their slice is shrinking and everyone is out to fuck everyone else creates fertile ground for conservatism & eventually authoritarianism. The absolute core conviction of online leftists to the contrary is endlessly baffling.

We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry

Este miedo tuyo yo lo vivo como un diagnóstico. De hecho, abogo desde hace muchos años por consolidar como marco la "irresponsabilidad climática".

The problem is that this dynamic inherently advantages the right, which has most of the old standbys (race, gender, reaction, nostalgia for the good old days) in its stall, while the left is over here trying to get people exercised about, like, the abstract notion of capitalism.

Déjà vu all over again