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“The Sorry State of AI X-Risk Advocacy, and Thoughts on Doing Better” by Thane Ruthenis


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First, let me quote my previous ancient post on the topic:

Effective Strategies for Changing Public Opinion

The titular paper is very relevant here. I'll summarize a few points.

  • The main two forms of intervention are persuasion and framing.
  • Persuasion is, to wit, an attempt to change someone's set of beliefs, either by introducing new ones or by changing existing ones.
  • Framing is a more subtle form: an attempt to change the relative weights of someone's beliefs, by empathizing different aspects of the situation, recontextualizing it.
  • There's a dichotomy between the two. Persuasion is found to be very ineffective if used on someone with high domain knowledge. Framing-style arguments, on the other hand, are more effective the more the recipient knows about the topic.
  • Thus, persuasion is better used on non-specialists, and it's most advantageous the first time it's used. If someone tries it and fails, they raise [...]

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Outline:

(02:23) Persuasion

(04:17) A Better Target Demographic

(08:10) Extant Projects in This Space?

(10:03) Framing

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

February 21st, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6dgCf92YAMFLM655S/the-sorry-state-of-ai-x-risk-advocacy-and-thoughts-on-doing

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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