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It seems like everyone is tired of hearing every other group's opinions about AI. Since like 2005, Eliezer has been hearing people say a superintelligent AI surely won't be clever, and has had enough. The average LW reader is tired of hearing obviously dumb Marc Andreessen accelerationist opinions. The average present harms person wants everyone to stop talking about the unrealistic apocalypse when artists are being replaced by shitty AI art. The average accelerationist wants everyone to stop talking about the unrealistic apocalypse when they could literally cure cancer and save Western civilization. The average NeurIPS author is sad that LLMs have made their expertise in Gaussian kernel wobblification irrelevant. Various subgroups of LW readers are dissatisfied with people who think reward is the optimization target, Eliezer is always right, or discussion is too tribal, or whatever.
With this combined with how Twitter distorts discourse is it any wonder that people need to process things as "oh, that's just another claim by X group, time to dismiss"? Anyway I think naming the groups isn't the problem, and so naming the groups in the post isn't contributing to the problem much. The important thing to address is why people find it advantageous to track these groups.
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