In the previous video, you said that publishing in mainstream journals might be a waste of time, due to the amount of “post-production” involved. In addition, you said that SIAI would prefer to keep its AGI research secret—otherwise, someone might read it, implement the un-Friendly AGI, and doom us all. You followed that up by saying that SIAI is more interested in “technical problems in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy” than in experimental AI research.
In light of the above, what does the SIAI actually do ? You don’t submit your work to rigorous scrutiny by your peers in the field (you need peer review for that); you either aren’t doing any AGI research, or are keeping it so secret that no one knows about it (which makes it impossible to gauge your progress, if any), and you aren’t developing any practical applications of AI, either (since you’d need experimentation for that). So, what is it that you are actually working on, other than growing the SIAI itself ?
In the previous video, you said that publishing in mainstream journals might be a waste of time, due to the amount of “post-production” involved. In addition, you said that SIAI would prefer to keep its AGI research secret—otherwise, someone might read it, implement the un-Friendly AGI, and doom us all. You followed that up by saying that SIAI is more interested in “technical problems in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy” than in experimental AI research.
In light of the above, what does the SIAI actually do ? You don’t submit your work to rigorous scrutiny by your peers in the field (you need peer review for that); you either aren’t doing any AGI research, or are keeping it so secret that no one knows about it (which makes it impossible to gauge your progress, if any), and you aren’t developing any practical applications of AI, either (since you’d need experimentation for that). So, what is it that you are actually working on, other than growing the SIAI itself ?
What is the point of having a Q&A if you avoid answering difficult questions like this?