Maybe what I want is a two-dimensional “prosaic AI vs. novel AI” and “whiteboards vs. code”. Then I can more clearly say that I’m pretty far toward ‘novel AI’ on one dimension (though not as far as I was in 2015), separate from whether I currently think the bigger bottlenecks (now or in the future) are more whiteboard-ish problems vs. more code-ish problems.
What you propose seems valuable, although not an alternative to my distinction IMO. This 2-D grid is more about what people consider as the most promising way of getting aligned AGI and how to get there, whereas my distinction focuses on separating two different types of research which have very different methods, epistemic standards and needs in terms of field-building.
Maybe what I want is a two-dimensional “prosaic AI vs. novel AI” and “whiteboards vs. code”. Then I can more clearly say that I’m pretty far toward ‘novel AI’ on one dimension (though not as far as I was in 2015), separate from whether I currently think the bigger bottlenecks (now or in the future) are more whiteboard-ish problems vs. more code-ish problems.
What you propose seems valuable, although not an alternative to my distinction IMO. This 2-D grid is more about what people consider as the most promising way of getting aligned AGI and how to get there, whereas my distinction focuses on separating two different types of research which have very different methods, epistemic standards and needs in terms of field-building.