No good deed goes unpunished. On the one hand you have those angrily complaining MIRI focuses too much on trying to convince “unimportant” people of basics, such as instrumental convergence. On the other hand you have assholes like me yelling loudly in public that MIRI has not spent nearly enough time spreading the truth and getting more people to agree with them about the underlying problem. All the while I’ve been accomplishing 3-4 OOMs less than the average MIRI employee on either axis, and I’m forced to deal with ~0 mad people.
No good deed goes unpunished. On the one hand you have those angrily complaining MIRI focuses too much on trying to convince “unimportant” people of basics, such as instrumental convergence. On the other hand you have assholes like me yelling loudly in public that MIRI has not spent nearly enough time spreading the truth and getting more people to agree with them about the underlying problem. All the while I’ve been accomplishing 3-4 OOMs less than the average MIRI employee on either axis, and I’m forced to deal with ~0 mad people.