My guess is that a “clean” algorithm is still going to require multiple conceptual insights in order to create it. And typically, those insights are going to be found before we’ve had time to strip away the extraneous ideas in order to make it clean, which requires additional insights. Combine this with the fact that at least some of these insights are likely to be public knowledge and relevant to AGI, and I think Eliezer has the right idea here.
My guess is that a “clean” algorithm is still going to require multiple conceptual insights in order to create it. And typically, those insights are going to be found before we’ve had time to strip away the extraneous ideas in order to make it clean, which requires additional insights. Combine this with the fact that at least some of these insights are likely to be public knowledge and relevant to AGI, and I think Eliezer has the right idea here.
OK, fair enough.
Fwiw, I also agree with Adele and Eliezer here and just didn’t see Eliezer’s comment when I was giving my comments.