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2026-06-09

"Just help everyone you meet" is good networking advice, but maybe bad civilisation-building advice

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It is locally optimal but globally suboptimal
To be clear, I do also more or less follow this advice, but not fully:
- With random neutral people, I often have previously have lashed out at them for not working on ASI risk. I am unsure if this is the right behaviour. I will experiment with different behaviours. For instance, I will experiment with maintaining a neutral tone yet uttering the words "your inaction on ASI risk will get me killed." I will also have to eventually become genuinely less angry. This seems important. I am less angry now, but atleast one factor is I genuinely keep some distance from many people.
- With anyone close enough to being funded or working for those at AI companies, I have sub-zero interest in helping them.
Most people are open to feedback on tactics not strategy.
What happens when you are helping two different people who are both taking actions that are destructive to each other? Helping pro-ASI people versus helping anti-ASI people. It does not sound very stable to me to try and help both.
The only way this gets solved long-term, if there is someone who actually gains power and status, while causing suffering to those building ASI. Such as anti-ASI US politicians or anti-ASI US journalists, or leaders (including politicians, billionaires, intelligence, etc) of countries that are anti-US and anti-ASI.

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