Consciousness is a dissolvable question, I think. People are talking past each other about several real structures, the Qualia Research Institute people are trying to pin down valance for example, a recent ACX post was talking about the global workspace of awareness, etc.
Alignment seems like a much harder problem, as you’re not just dealing with some confused concepts, but trying to build something under challenging conditions (e.g. only one shot at the intelligence explosion).
Consciousness is a dissolvable question, I think. People are talking past each other about several real structures, the Qualia Research Institute people are trying to pin down valance for example, a recent ACX post was talking about the global workspace of awareness, etc.
Alignment seems like a much harder problem, as you’re not just dealing with some confused concepts, but trying to build something under challenging conditions (e.g. only one shot at the intelligence explosion).