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Here are some things I did after reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:
- tell my friends and family about the book
- write a review on Amazon & Goodreads
- review scam copies on Amazon with 1 star
- Searching for IABED on amazon.com, you will find that after the real book, several LLM written scam copies show up.
- the same is true for amazon.co.uk, .de, ... (these are distinct as far as reviews go)
- I looked at the sample text and if it made no sense and was LLM written (it always was), wrote a 1 star review (only on amazon.de)
- I only rated on amazon.de, because my Amazon account is only eligible for that. You could do it for the other Amazon sites.
- Usually my reviews are display on the next day
- (MIRI is aware but "it seems like there isn't that much we can do about it, unfortunately.")
- (I also tried reporting them; but I am not sure they are breaking any rules.)
- request the book in libraries
- I found a list of German public libraries, where one can easily request them to buy a book and went through that. You could do this for libraries in your region.
- I did 15 requests. 4 libraries bought it. 2 said they won't buy it.
I'd attend a march, if 1000 people also pledged to march in Germany.
I might contact my representatives (How to email your politician).
2Overview of Eliezer Yudkowsky's writing:
- on LessWrong starting with The Sequences / Rationality A-Z (book)
- Harry Potter and the Methods Of Rationality (book)
- Planecrash / Project Lawful (long fictional story)
- on Arbital (AI Alignment)
- on Twitter/X (mostly retweeting)
- on Facebook (mostly retweeting)
- on Medium (2 posts)
- on Tumblr (fiction / on writing)
- e.g. Masculine Mongoose (short story)
- on fanfiction.net (3 stories)
- on yudkowsky.net (personal/fiction)
- on Reddit (fiction / on writing)