What does it mean to buy “end time”? If an action results in a world with longer timelines, then what does it mean to say that the additional time comes “later”?
What is “serial alignment research”? I’m struggling to distinguish it from “alignment research.”
Can you clarify the culture change you want to see? We should think of buying time as “better” than “(traditional) technical AI safety research and (traditional) community-building”?
Less-important comments:
Can you be more specific about “ODA+”? Does it include Meta and Google Brain, or only the most safety-conscious labs?
I’m confused why field building isn’t listed as one of the key benefits other than buying time. Publishing more work like the goal misgeneralization paper would make field building more successful.
In the graph (“Figure 1”), I’m parsing “technical alignment” as “technical research on the core challenges of alignment that avoids shortening timelines,” because the impact of talented researchers depends heavily on the projects they pursue.
PaLM would have been just as fast if they chose not to publish the PaLM paper. (The sentence about PaLM is confusing.)
What does it mean to buy “end time”? If an action results in a world with longer timelines, then what does it mean to say that the additional time comes “later”?
What is “serial alignment research”? I’m struggling to distinguish it from “alignment research.”
Can you clarify the culture change you want to see? We should think of buying time as “better” than “(traditional) technical AI safety research and (traditional) community-building”?
Less-important comments:
Can you be more specific about “ODA+”? Does it include Meta and Google Brain, or only the most safety-conscious labs?
I’m confused why field building isn’t listed as one of the key benefits other than buying time. Publishing more work like the goal misgeneralization paper would make field building more successful.
In the graph (“Figure 1”), I’m parsing “technical alignment” as “technical research on the core challenges of alignment that avoids shortening timelines,” because the impact of talented researchers depends heavily on the projects they pursue.
PaLM would have been just as fast if they chose not to publish the PaLM paper. (The sentence about PaLM is confusing.)