Given that ALBA was not meant to be a realistic aligned AI design in and of itself, but just a way to get insights into how to build a realistic aligned AI (which I hadn’t entirely understood until now), I wonder if it makes sense to try to nail down all the details and arguments for it before checking to see if you generated any such insights. If we assume that aligned learning roughly looks like ALBA, what does that tell you about what a more realistic aligned AI looks like? It seems worth asking this, in case you, for example, spend a lot of time figuring out exactly how capability amplification could work, and then it ends up that capability amplification isn’t even used in the final aligned AI design, or in case designing aligned AI out of individual AI components doesn’t actually give you much insight into how to design more realistic aligned AI.
Given that ALBA was not meant to be a realistic aligned AI design in and of itself, but just a way to get insights into how to build a realistic aligned AI (which I hadn’t entirely understood until now), I wonder if it makes sense to try to nail down all the details and arguments for it before checking to see if you generated any such insights. If we assume that aligned learning roughly looks like ALBA, what does that tell you about what a more realistic aligned AI looks like? It seems worth asking this, in case you, for example, spend a lot of time figuring out exactly how capability amplification could work, and then it ends up that capability amplification isn’t even used in the final aligned AI design, or in case designing aligned AI out of individual AI components doesn’t actually give you much insight into how to design more realistic aligned AI.