in the longer term I expect to try to do political advocacy as well

I find this idea particularly fraught. I already find it somewhat difficult to engage on this site due to the contentious theories some members hold, and I echo testingthewater's warning against the trap of reopening these old controversies. You're trying to thread a really fine needle between "meaningfully advocate change" and "open all possible debates" that I don't think is feasible.

The site is currently watching a major push from Yudkowsky and Soares' book launch towards a broad coalition for an AI pause. It really only takes a couple major incidents of connecting the idea to ethnonationalism, scientific racism and/or dictatorship for the targets of your advocacy to turn away.

I'm not going to suggest you stay on-message (lw is way too "truth-seeking" for that to reach anyone), but you should carefully consider the ways in which your future goals conflict.

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