I think this post doesn't engage with the arguments for anti-x-risk AI regulation, to a degree that I am frustrated by. Surely you know that the people you are talking to -- the proponents of anti-x-risk AI regulation -- are well aware of the flaws of governments generally and the way in which regulation often stifles progress or results in regulatory capture that is actively harmful to whatever cause it was supposed to support. Surely you know that e.g. Yudkowsky is well aware of all this... right?
The core argument these regulation proponents are making and have been making is "Yeah, regulation often sucks or misfires, but we have to try, because worlds that don't regulate AGI are even more doomed."
What do you think will happen, if there is no regulation of AGI? Seriously how do you think it will go? Maybe you just don't think AGI will happen for another decade or so?
I think this post doesn't engage with the arguments for anti-x-risk AI regulation, to a degree that I am frustrated by. Surely you know that the people you are talking to -- the proponents of anti-x-risk AI regulation -- are well aware of the flaws of governments generally and the way in which regulation often stifles progress or results in regulatory capture that is actively harmful to whatever cause it was supposed to support. Surely you know that e.g. Yudkowsky is well aware of all this... right?
The core argument these regulation proponents are making and have been making is "Yeah, regulation often sucks or misfires, but we have to try, because worlds that don't regulate AGI are even more doomed."
What do you think will happen, if there is no regulation of AGI? Seriously how do you think it will go? Maybe you just don't think AGI will happen for another decade or so?