Yeah, I think just having coarse-grained facts would not be enough. I’m referring to a more general idea when I say “multi-level models”: something that can represent concepts at different levels of abstraction, probably not with the high-level facts being a function of the low-level facts. My goal would be to have at least some concrete model for a multi-level model that, for example, preserves the “diamond” concept as it learns new physics. I think (a) and (b) are both reasons why I want to do this; I want to know if it’s possible to create an AI with goals related to concrete physical things (which requires something like multi-level models, but maybe not much more?), and I also want to have a better understanding of more abstract concepts to see if it’s possible to have an AI do anything useful with them.
Could our disagreement be stated as: I think it is plausible that, with a few years of work, a small number of researchers could make useful models for things like diamond-maximization; whereas you don’t think it is plausible?
Yeah, I think just having coarse-grained facts would not be enough. I’m referring to a more general idea when I say “multi-level models”: something that can represent concepts at different levels of abstraction, probably not with the high-level facts being a function of the low-level facts. My goal would be to have at least some concrete model for a multi-level model that, for example, preserves the “diamond” concept as it learns new physics. I think (a) and (b) are both reasons why I want to do this; I want to know if it’s possible to create an AI with goals related to concrete physical things (which requires something like multi-level models, but maybe not much more?), and I also want to have a better understanding of more abstract concepts to see if it’s possible to have an AI do anything useful with them.
Could our disagreement be stated as: I think it is plausible that, with a few years of work, a small number of researchers could make useful models for things like diamond-maximization; whereas you don’t think it is plausible?