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This page is now the 8th result for a google search for 'existential risk' and the 4th result for 'singularity existential risk'
Regardless of the effect SIAI may have had on the public image of existential risk reduction, it seems this is unlikely to be helpful.
Edit: it is now 7th and first, respectively. This is plusungood.
This is partially because Google gives a ranking boost to things it sees as recent, so it may not stay that well ranked.
Right & upvoted.
Yes, good point.
I disagree. I think that my post does a good job of highlighting the fact that public aversion to thinking about existential risk reduction is irrational.
The post (as I parse it) has two points:
The former is fine, but the latter seems more likely to damage SIAI and existential risk reduction. It's not desirable that when someone does their initial google one of the first things they find is infighting and attacks on SIAI as essentially untrustworthy. Rather, they should find actual articles about the singularity, the dangers it poses, and the work being done.
As you so accurately quote Yvain, for the average reading this is not an intelligent critique of the public relations of SingInst. This is 'boo Eliezer!'
I agree that this article is not one of the first that should appear when people Google the singularity or existential risk. I'm somewhat perplexed as to how this happened?
Despite this issue, I think that the benefits of my posting on this topic outweigh the costs. I believe that ultimately whether or not humans avoid global catastrophic risk depends much more on people's willingness to think about the topic than it does on SIAI's reputation. I don't believe that my post will lower readers' interest thinking about in existential risk.