I think this is a reasonable response, but also, independently of whether Eliezer successfully got the generators of his thought-process across, the volume of words still seems like substantial evidence that it’s reasonably for Eliezer to not think that marginally writing more will drastically change things from his perspective.
Sure. My comment was not intended to bear on the question of whether it’s useful for Eliezer to write more words or not—I was only responding directly to Ben.
EDIT: Although, of course, if the already-written words haven’t been effective, then that is also evidence that writing more words won’t help. So, either way, I agree with your view.
I think this is a reasonable response, but also, independently of whether Eliezer successfully got the generators of his thought-process across, the volume of words still seems like substantial evidence that it’s reasonably for Eliezer to not think that marginally writing more will drastically change things from his perspective.
Sure. My comment was not intended to bear on the question of whether it’s useful for Eliezer to write more words or not—I was only responding directly to Ben.
EDIT: Although, of course, if the already-written words haven’t been effective, then that is also evidence that writing more words won’t help. So, either way, I agree with your view.
Scientific breakthroughs live on the margins, so if he has guesses on how to achieve alignment sharing them could make a huge difference.