Comment by jacquesm
2 days ago
> You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly.
That's a pretty hefty statement, especially the 'easily' part, but I'll settle for one well known and verified example.
2 days ago
> You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly.
That's a pretty hefty statement, especially the 'easily' part, but I'll settle for one well known and verified example.
I upvoted you, but wouldn't “verified” exclude the vast majority of death threats since they might have been faked? (Or maybe we should disregard almost all claimed death threats we hear about since they might have been faked?)
I'm surprised that you consider this hefty or find this surprising. I think you can just Google this and decide on what you consider "verified". There's quite a lot of "AI drama" out there that I'm sure you can find. I'm reluctant to provide examples just to have you say "that's not meeting my bar for verified" for what I consider such a low stakes conversation.
So nothing then.
Nothing from me! Sorry but I don't really think I'm obligated to support that claim.
edit: Here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102818
That's the absolute most I'll do for you. Go find your own evidence, otherwise.
Is it that hard to believe? As far as I can tell, the probability of receiving death threats approaches 1 as the size of your audience increases, and AI is a highly emotionally charged topic. Now, credible death threats are a different, much trickier question.
Yes, it's quite hard to believe. That's why one single example is sufficient for me. Then I'll be happy to extrapolate that one example to many more so it is a low bar I would say, given the OPs statement about how common this is. Note the 'easily'.
It's strange to me that you read the word 'easily' as 'commonly', these are unrelated terms. But I suppose I am fine with saying that reports of death threats against users who use AI are quite common, certainly any navigation of one of the more controversial subreddits where these topics come up is sure to reveal that users are reporting this.
You can find more public accounts, such as by artists or game companies, about death threats they've received.
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So you've somehow avoided seeing all the other stories over the years from people who received death threats over far more asinine topics? I'll be honest, I can't be bothered to do research on this, but the base rate is so high that the real question in my mind is whether the presence of death threats related to a topic is diagnostic of anything at all.
You can believe one thing or another, but the question is whether it's true. Do you sincerely not understand the difference?
I do understand the difference, which is why I explicitly commented on jacquesm's beliefs and epistemology.