Eliezer Yudkowsky's written a response to this arguing that a six month ban is woefully insufficient. A thing I found particularly compelling is that there's a significant game-theoretic difference between "shut down some projects for six months" (which is easy to see as a political game between different AI players who want to get ahead in the race) and "humanity collectively decides to actually take the difficult actions necessary to solve problem, and sees it as a join endeavor of survival."
When I think about AI through an optimistic lens, I still think pausing to get a better handle on what's going on and how to evaluate it still seems like a useful step. GPT4 represents a substantial increase of capabilities we still don't fully understand.
I don't think it's a crazy luddite position to think "let's actually see how this initial experiment plays out" before racing ahead to the next even large blackbox advance.
...seems false? At least with noscript on I can still see the site. (disclaimer: I work on the site. There's definitely reduced functionality if you don't have JS enabled, but surprised/confused if you can't see stuff at all)
No Firefox reader support, nothing on the page, effectively the cause is that TPRB blocker block forum.effectivealtruism.org + NoScript blocking lesswrong.com js but anyway, without allowing the third party domain AND the main JS I can't see anything...
The point is less about the bullshit-job nature, and more about how the job warps you as a person (i.e. to make it to upper management, you end up having to do unethical things, and rearrange your life/hobbies/etc to be the things that get you ahead)
https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
See comments on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833