My point was to address what I took to be the despair in your post. Technical skills are not what is needed here for "personal action", any more than after Pearl Harbor, every citizen who couldn't raise a rifle should have collapsed into despair. Yeah our reps suck, but they suck in very predictable ways: i.e. those where the voters - us…
My point was to address what I took to be the despair in your post. Technical skills are not what is needed here for "personal action", any more than after Pearl Harbor, every citizen who couldn't raise a rifle should have collapsed into despair. Yeah our reps suck, but they suck in very predictable ways: i.e. those where the voters - us - provide contradictory demands. After December 7th, politicians quickly accepted that voters definitely would demand a successful resolution to the situation, so they attempted to provide it.
If AI is going to cause Extremely Bad Thing it should not actually (compared to getting reps to do contradictory/unsuccessful things) be that hard to 1) find good evidence that shows that it will, 2) persuade enough voters that this is true, 3) not vote for pols who don't have a good solution. That's not my opinion, that's simply the only course of action that the past 10,000 years of human history have left you. Maybe it will be really hard! We should get started early then, and divide the task up amongst the billions of us.
Public despair is bad because it convinces other people not to do things that might help. Your private despair is far more measured, because I assume you are still making breakfast, taking care of your family and working towards retirement - if not, then please seek assistance for those specific items - so in reality you obviously think there is at least a reasonable hope. Let the reasonable hope - that sufficient people will do the right thing, and therefore be part of the persuasive case that they do so - be your public face, and keep doing all the important things in your life that will be important in 10 years as well - and also take your citizen's portion of the necessary steps forward.
My point was to address what I took to be the despair in your post. Technical skills are not what is needed here for "personal action", any more than after Pearl Harbor, every citizen who couldn't raise a rifle should have collapsed into despair. Yeah our reps suck, but they suck in very predictable ways: i.e. those where the voters - us - provide contradictory demands. After December 7th, politicians quickly accepted that voters definitely would demand a successful resolution to the situation, so they attempted to provide it.
If AI is going to cause Extremely Bad Thing it should not actually (compared to getting reps to do contradictory/unsuccessful things) be that hard to 1) find good evidence that shows that it will, 2) persuade enough voters that this is true, 3) not vote for pols who don't have a good solution. That's not my opinion, that's simply the only course of action that the past 10,000 years of human history have left you. Maybe it will be really hard! We should get started early then, and divide the task up amongst the billions of us.
Public despair is bad because it convinces other people not to do things that might help. Your private despair is far more measured, because I assume you are still making breakfast, taking care of your family and working towards retirement - if not, then please seek assistance for those specific items - so in reality you obviously think there is at least a reasonable hope. Let the reasonable hope - that sufficient people will do the right thing, and therefore be part of the persuasive case that they do so - be your public face, and keep doing all the important things in your life that will be important in 10 years as well - and also take your citizen's portion of the necessary steps forward.