Much of this depends on whether the topic is on the radar of usual protest-organizing organizations, meaning roughly speaking unions, NGOs and minor (often communist) political parties. I'd say there's a fair chance these orgs will start organizing mass protests against data centers (I've seen some minor ones already); there's a possibility that this might eventually evolve into protests against various AI-related developments in general, though obviously the direction those protests take might not be into everyone's liking.
Well, as one of the people who has been properly "safety-pilled" only recently, become active in the safety movement and does, indeed, come from the world of mass politics and humanities, not the world of AI research and rationalism (this is my first comment at LW...)
...what's the plan for people like me? We can't work for Plan C - it's not like I'm going to walk across the street from my office to Anthropic's office with a friendly chat with people I already know. I don't live there! I am perhaps privileged in at least knowing, at some level, people who k... (read more)
What would be the specific difference of "sympathy for the civilians in Gaza" and "active support for the civilians in Gaza" here from a humanitarian perspective? I mean, there is a difference, but is it a large enough a difference to affect the disturbing nature of the answer?