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A potentially impactful thing: someone competent runs as a candidate for the 2028 election on an AI notkilleveryoneism[1] platform. Maybe even two people should run, one for the democratic primary, and one in the republican primary. While getting the nomination is rather unlikely, there could be lots of benefits even if you fail to gain the nomination (like other presidential candidates becoming sympathetic to AI notkilleveryoneism, or more popularity of AI notkilleveryoneism in the population, etc.)
On the other hand, attempting a presidential run can easily backfire.
A relevant previous example to this kind of approach is the 2020 campaign by Andrew Yang, which focussed on universal basic income (and downsides of automation). While the campaign attracted some attention, it seems like it didn't succeed in making UBI a popular policy among democrats.
I asked because I'm talking with you and I wanted to know *your* reasoning as to why a technical solution to the alignment of superintelligence is impossible. It seems to be "lots of people see lots of challenges and they are too many to overcome, take it up with them".
But it's just a hard problem, and the foundations are not utterly mysterious. Humanity understands quite a lot about the physical and computational nature of our reality by now.
Maybe it would be more constructive to ask how you envisage achieving the political impossible of stopping the worldwide AI race, since that's something that you do advocate.
Mid 2027 seems too late to me for such a candidate to start the official campaign.
For the 2020 presidential election, many democratic candidates announced their campaign in early 2019, and Yang already in 2017. Debates happened already in June 2019. As a likely unknown candidate, you probably need a longer run time to accumulate a bit of fame.
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oh yup, sorry, I meant mid 2026, like ~6 months before the primary proper starts. But could be earlier.