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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
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I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
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As best I can tell so far (willing to keep learning) the entire AI professional community doesn't seem to grasp that, as of yet, there's not really a compelling case that their well intended efforts will be meaningful.
Frustrating, but fascinating.
Is there any intellectual within the AI realm who is willing and able to sail against this group think?
If yes, is there any chance we could get them in here so I don't have to keep typing this?
Stuart Russell is probably the most prominent example.
I think Dan Hendryks is doing good work in this area as well, as well as a bunch of people on the AI alignment team at DeepMind.
But yea, it'd be great if a lot more ML researchers/engineers engaged with the AI x-risk arguments and alignment research.