1. I mostly agree with you.
2. Thanks for information about rational youtube channels and other. I have update myself.
3. In fact, even if someone already do this, I wrote this article to say "it is too early to capitulate". Even if we have small chances to surviving, we should to do something, not write articles like MIRI announces new "Death With Dignity" strategy [LW · GW] and accept the defeat. Because if you accept defeat, you would do nothing after and you won't increase our chances to surviving (and you would if you don't accept).

Basically, the answer to "why aren't people trying harder?" is that many are already trying harder, for years, some of them for decades, and... well, the predictions are not very optimistic.

I see, it's a interesting point of view I didn't think about. But it's a bias. Even if fight have little sense, considering importance of space colonisation, everything else have even less sens. How can you think about "death with dignity", if your actions can increase probability of human Milky Way on 0.001%?

If someone is working on this, they are probably not going to reply here. But, ignoring the difficulty of the task, it is not sure whether doing so would actually improve our chances. On one hand, yeah, humanity could get a few extra years to figure out alignment. On the other hand, I am afraid that the debate around alignment would be utterly poisoned; for most people, the word "alignment" would start to mean "a dangerous terrorist". So during those extra years there probably wouldn't be a lot of alignment research done.

OK, it was too radical. But what's about "coordinate action of 200 peoples, that obtain a Taiwan visa, start to work as guardians on all chips fabrics and research laboratories. And, if all other's our plans fall and humanity are about to extinct, this 200 peoples synthesize a lot of nitroglycerin in a garage..."

That's I mean by organisation we need. If MIRI did it, I wouldn't know, but my intuition say MIRI did not do it.

My factual disagreement:

I suppose people are already doing this?

So do it more instead of writing articles "How Spend Last 5 Years Of LIfe".

That was kinda the original plan [? · GW] of Less Wrong, which in hindsight probably seems too optimistic [? · GW]. (Even Putin expected three days to take over Ukraine.)

Continuing this plan is better than nothing (than accept defeat). And... good joke.

Something like MIRI?

MIRI is working on the direct alignment only, isn't?

Different tasks require different levels of talent. Compared to saving the world, creating a successful startup is trivial

Taboo "saving the world". I don't want someone to "save the world", I just want someone to "create the best youtube channel ever in using a boring theme"... ok, maybe that's impossible. But maybe that's possible, who knows.

If videos convince random people, then they will convince a certain number of politicians and AI developers.

If enough people are convinced of the need for AGI alignment, politicians will start promoting AGI alignment in order to get votes.

If we do videos well, the regulations of AI development will be introduced. If we do videos really well, the government can directly allocate money for research on alignment.

Spreading this idea will increase the number of our resources (more peoples will work on it).