Why sending an email is awesome

• Exit your filter bubble. If you're talking about AI risks or pausing in a discord server or twitter, you're mostly preaching to the choir. With email, you can reach people who don't read about this stuff all day.
• It's the medium for the pros. Politicians, journalists, lobbyists - all of them use email. If you want to be taken seriously, you should use email too.
• Making AI Risk "common knowledge" is key. We need to get everyone to know that everyone else knows about AI risk, so it becomes "common knowledge". As well as, convincing influential people, like politicians, journalists, and lobbyists. (E.g. See Connor's explanation as to why making AI Risk "common knowledge" is super important here  and here  .)
• No social pressure. If you post something publicly, a politician might be hesitant to respond to a topic they haven't made up their mind on.
• Not many people actually do it. That means that your email will stand out.