These conversations are great and I really admire the transparency. It’s really nice to see discussions that normally happen in private happen instead in public where everyone can reflect, give feedback, and improve their own thoughts. On the other hand, the combined conversations combined to a decent-sized novel—LW says 198,846 words! Is anyone considering investing heavily in summarizing the content for people to get involved without having to read all that content?
Echoing that I loved these conversations and I’m super grateful to everyone who participated — especially Richard, Paul, Eliezer, Nate, Ajeya, Carl, Rohin, and Jaan, who contributed a lot.
I don’t plan to try to summarize the discussions or distill key take-aways myself (other than the extremely cursory job I did on https://intelligence.org/late-2021-miri-conversations/), but I’m very keen on seeing others attempt that, especially as part of a process to figure out their own models and do some evaluative work.
I think I’d rather see partial summaries/responses that go deep, instead of a more exhaustive but shallow summary; and I’d rather see summaries that center the author’s own view (what’s your personal take-away? what are your objections? which things were small versus large updates? etc.) over something that tries to be maximally objective and impersonal. But all the options seem good to me.
I chatted briefly the other day with Rob Bensinger about me turning them into a little book. My guess is I’d want to do something to compress especially the long Paul/Eliezer bet hashing out, that felt super long to me and not all worth the reading.
Interested in other suggestions for compression.
(This is not a commitment to do this, I probably won’t.)
The compression idea evokes Kaj Sotala’s summary/analysis of the AI-Foom Debate (which I found quite useful at the time). I support the idea, especially given it has taken a while for the participants to settle on things cruxy enough to discuss and so on. Though I would also be interested in “look, these two disagree on that, but look at all the very fundamental things about AI alignment they agree on”.
Here is a heavily condensed summary of the takeoff speeds thread of the conversation, incorporating earlier points made by Hanson, Grace, etc. https://objection.lol/objection/3262835
These conversations are great and I really admire the transparency. It’s really nice to see discussions that normally happen in private happen instead in public where everyone can reflect, give feedback, and improve their own thoughts. On the other hand, the combined conversations combined to a decent-sized novel—LW says 198,846 words! Is anyone considering investing heavily in summarizing the content for people to get involved without having to read all that content?
Echoing that I loved these conversations and I’m super grateful to everyone who participated — especially Richard, Paul, Eliezer, Nate, Ajeya, Carl, Rohin, and Jaan, who contributed a lot.
I don’t plan to try to summarize the discussions or distill key take-aways myself (other than the extremely cursory job I did on https://intelligence.org/late-2021-miri-conversations/), but I’m very keen on seeing others attempt that, especially as part of a process to figure out their own models and do some evaluative work.
I think I’d rather see partial summaries/responses that go deep, instead of a more exhaustive but shallow summary; and I’d rather see summaries that center the author’s own view (what’s your personal take-away? what are your objections? which things were small versus large updates? etc.) over something that tries to be maximally objective and impersonal. But all the options seem good to me.
I chatted briefly the other day with Rob Bensinger about me turning them into a little book. My guess is I’d want to do something to compress especially the long Paul/Eliezer bet hashing out, that felt super long to me and not all worth the reading.
Interested in other suggestions for compression.
(This is not a commitment to do this, I probably won’t.)
I wish you (or someone) would make a little book of this.
The compression idea evokes Kaj Sotala’s summary/analysis of the AI-Foom Debate (which I found quite useful at the time). I support the idea, especially given it has taken a while for the participants to settle on things cruxy enough to discuss and so on. Though I would also be interested in “look, these two disagree on that, but look at all the very fundamental things about AI alignment they agree on”.
Here is a heavily condensed summary of the takeoff speeds thread of the conversation, incorporating earlier points made by Hanson, Grace, etc. https://objection.lol/objection/3262835
:)
(kudos to Ben Goldhaber for pointing me to it)