:) There’s something good about “common sense” that isn’t in “effective epistemics”, though—something about wanting not to lose the robustness of the ordinary vetted-by-experience functioning patterns. (Even though this is really hard, plausibly impossible, when we need to reach toward contexts far from those in which our experiences were based.)
To clarify: we’re not joking about the need to get “what we do” and “what people think we do” more in alignment, via both communicating better and changing our organizational name if necessary. We put that on our “goals for 2020” list (both internally, and in our writeup). We are joking that CfBCSSS is an acceptable name (due to its length making it not-really-that).
(Eli works with us a lot but has been taking a leave of absence for the last few months and so didn’t know that bit, but lots of us are not-joking about getting our name and mission clear.)
I’m not really joking about it. I wish the name better expressed what the organization does.
Though I admit that CfBCSSS, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of acronyms.
I nominate “Society of Effective Epistemics For AI Risk” or SEE-FAR for short.
:) There’s something good about “common sense” that isn’t in “effective epistemics”, though—something about wanting not to lose the robustness of the ordinary vetted-by-experience functioning patterns. (Even though this is really hard, plausibly impossible, when we need to reach toward contexts far from those in which our experiences were based.)
This is the best idea I’ve heard yet.
It would be pretty confusing to people, and yet...
To clarify: we’re not joking about the need to get “what we do” and “what people think we do” more in alignment, via both communicating better and changing our organizational name if necessary. We put that on our “goals for 2020” list (both internally, and in our writeup). We are joking that CfBCSSS is an acceptable name (due to its length making it not-really-that).
(Eli works with us a lot but has been taking a leave of absence for the last few months and so didn’t know that bit, but lots of us are not-joking about getting our name and mission clear.)