Thanks for the post :) To be clear, I’m very excited about conceptual and deconfusion work in general, in order to come up with imprecise theories of rationality and intelligence. I guess this puts my position in world 1. The thing I’m not excited about is the prospect of getting to this final imprecise theory via doing precise technical research. In other words, I’d prefer HRAD work to draw more on cognitive science and less on maths and logic. I outline some of the intuitions behind that in this post.
Having said that, when I’ve critiqued HRAD work in the past, on a couple of occasions I’ve later realised that the criticism wasn’t aimed at a crux for people actually working on it (here’s my explanation of one of those cases). To some extent this is because, without a clearly-laid-out position to criticise, the critic has the difficult task of first clarifying the position then rebutting it. But I should still flag that I don’t know how much HRAD researchers would actually disagree with my claims in the first paragraph.
Thanks for the post :) To be clear, I’m very excited about conceptual and deconfusion work in general, in order to come up with imprecise theories of rationality and intelligence. I guess this puts my position in world 1. The thing I’m not excited about is the prospect of getting to this final imprecise theory via doing precise technical research. In other words, I’d prefer HRAD work to draw more on cognitive science and less on maths and logic. I outline some of the intuitions behind that in this post.
Having said that, when I’ve critiqued HRAD work in the past, on a couple of occasions I’ve later realised that the criticism wasn’t aimed at a crux for people actually working on it (here’s my explanation of one of those cases). To some extent this is because, without a clearly-laid-out position to criticise, the critic has the difficult task of first clarifying the position then rebutting it. But I should still flag that I don’t know how much HRAD researchers would actually disagree with my claims in the first paragraph.