Yeah, that points well to what I meant. I appreciate your generous intellectual effort here to paraphrase back!
Sorry about my initially vague and disagreeable comment (aimed at Adam, who I chat with sometimes as a colleague). I was worried about what looks like a default tendency in the AI existential safety community to start from the assumption that problems in alignment are solvable.
Adam has since clarified with me that although he had not written about it in the post, he is very much open to exploring impossibility arguments (and sent me a classic paper on impossibility proofs in distributed computing).
Yeah, that points well to what I meant. I appreciate your generous intellectual effort here to paraphrase back!
Sorry about my initially vague and disagreeable comment (aimed at Adam, who I chat with sometimes as a colleague). I was worried about what looks like a default tendency in the AI existential safety community to start from the assumption that problems in alignment are solvable.
Adam has since clarified with me that although he had not written about it in the post, he is very much open to exploring impossibility arguments (and sent me a classic paper on impossibility proofs in distributed computing).