Adam Train

In ethics, there is an argument called name the trait. It is deployed in many contexts, such as veganism—"name the trait that justifies our poor treatment of animals"—and theology—"name the trait that grants humanity dominion over the Earth"—among others. The idea is just to challenge your interlocutor to specify something,...

Much is said about society's general lack of AI situational awareness. One prevailing topic of conversation in my social orbit is our ongoing bafflement about how so many other people we know, otherwise smart and inquisitive, seem unaware of or unconcerned about AI progress, x-risk, etc. This hardly seems like...