I first considered making a top-level post about this, but it felt kinda awkward, since a lot of this is a response to Yudkowsky (and his points in this post in particular) and I had to provide a lot of context and quotes there.
(I do have some posts about AI control coming up that are more standalone “here’s what I believe”, but that’s a separate thing and does not directly respond to a Yudkowskian position.)
Making a top-level post of course gets you more views and likes and whatnot; I’m sad that high-quality comments on old posts very easily go unnoticed and get much less response than low-quality top-level posts. It might be locally sensible to write a shortform that says “hey I wrote this long effort-comment, maybe check it out”, but I don’t like this being the solution either. I would like to see the frontpage allocating relatively more attention towards this sort of thing over a flood of new posts. (E.g. your effort-comments strike me as “this makes most sense as a comment, but man, the site does currently give this stuff very little attention”, and I’m not happy about this.)
I first considered making a top-level post about this, but it felt kinda awkward, since a lot of this is a response to Yudkowsky (and his points in this post in particular) and I had to provide a lot of context and quotes there.
(I do have some posts about AI control coming up that are more standalone “here’s what I believe”, but that’s a separate thing and does not directly respond to a Yudkowskian position.)
Making a top-level post of course gets you more views and likes and whatnot; I’m sad that high-quality comments on old posts very easily go unnoticed and get much less response than low-quality top-level posts. It might be locally sensible to write a shortform that says “hey I wrote this long effort-comment, maybe check it out”, but I don’t like this being the solution either. I would like to see the frontpage allocating relatively more attention towards this sort of thing over a flood of new posts. (E.g. your effort-comments strike me as “this makes most sense as a comment, but man, the site does currently give this stuff very little attention”, and I’m not happy about this.)