Claims / C-T7Z7FDAEM4

Analytic

Yudkowsky and Soares's own account of why their warning has not landed is a common-knowledge failure, not a persuasion failure: insiders privately believe more than they say (Hinton puts the risk above 50% but "usually avoids saying this"; officials "can see the danger themselves, but cannot say so"), and outsiders see expert disagreement they feel unable to judge. A book can change what a reader privately believes; it cannot show anyone what everyone else believes. Their own remedies, protests that only happen once they reach critical mass, are coordination devices for that gap, and closing it is the job of a public, attributed record of who believes what.

Narrative and audience

Evidence 7 passages

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    but he usually avoids saying this, because there's other people who think it's less.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    It's the part where the most informed and most worried parties have to downplay their fears,

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    many of them just see disagreement between experts and don't consider themselves knowledgeable

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    But a surprising number of elected officials have told us that they can see the danger themselves,

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    but they all thought they were alone in thinking so.

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    and everyone knew everyone else believed it

  • groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky

    that will only happen if they reach a critical mass.

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