I support more advancements in cyberhacking capabilities so that companies and govts are incapable of keeping secrets. Secrecy enables them to act against the wishes of the majority to an extent that couldn’t otherwise.

If you already have lots of peoples attention (for instance because you have a social media following or high status credentials) and you’re a US/UK citizen, your best available plan might be to run a political campaign with AI pause as the agenda.

You’re unlikely to win the election, but it’ll likely shift the Overton window and give people hope that change is possible.

For most people, having a next step after “ok I read the blogposts and I’m convinced, now what?” is important. Voting or campaigning for you could be that next step.

Is anyone making psychological profiles of the heads of the AI labs? I know profiling is partly pseudoscience, but I also think there's some useful work to be done here.

Idk if this is true, but let's say it is true. In my mind, this is still an improvement over the current situation, which is that the public will be unaware while AI lab heads and US intelligence heads rush to build the Machine God and succeed, and then either cause human extinction or build an immortal dictatorship.

What am I missing?

it's perfectly reasonable for people to be selfish and care about superintelligence happening during their lifetime

Yes people are selfish, that is why you should sometimes be ready to fight against them. Point a is not a disagreement with Ben.

then for some reason the entire world modern order collapses

This is low probability on time scale of decades but is an argument people can use to justify their self-serving desires for immortality as somehow altruistic.

Maybe unpopular opinion - I think if Moskowitz knows he can't become a skilled politician himself, maybe he should spend a few years grooming a successor who can, and then transfer his entire net worth to this person with no conditions attached. Typically such a successor is one's child, but in this case there's no time for that (due to short AI timelines).

I think Moskowitz's funding of malaria nets and Moskowitz's funding of AI policymakers - both come from the same mistake of thinking like a billionaire instead of thinking like a politician.

The actual bottlenecks to fixing both African politics and US-China geopolitics around AI are not money but political leaders who are skilled in public persuasion, coalition building, finding successors, inventing ideology, etc

Appealing to outgroup fear just gets you a bunch of paranoid groups who never talk to one another.

Why is this a problem? Also remember they all ideally share common outgroups.