I’m not sure why we haven’t tried the ‘generate and publish chatroom logs’ option before.
My guess is that a lot of these conversations often hinge on details that people are somewhat ansy about saying in public, and I suspect MIRI now thinks the value of “credible public pessimism” is larger than the cost of “gesturing towards things that seem powerful” on the margin such that chatlogs like this are a better idea than they would have seemed to the MIRI of 4 years ago. [Or maybe it was just “no one thought to try, because we had access to in-person conversations and those seemed much better, despite not generating transcripts.”]
My guess is that a lot of these conversations often hinge on details that people are somewhat ansy about saying in public, and I suspect MIRI now thinks the value of “credible public pessimism” is larger than the cost of “gesturing towards things that seem powerful” on the margin such that chatlogs like this are a better idea than they would have seemed to the MIRI of 4 years ago. [Or maybe it was just “no one thought to try, because we had access to in-person conversations and those seemed much better, despite not generating transcripts.”]