Thinking too hard about whether what you are doing actually is helping can lead to getting done nothing at all as Feymann experienced before we switched his approach.
It’s possible that at the present state of the AI safety field there are no clear roads to victory. If that’s the case then you would want to grow the AI safety field by letting researchers grow it more via curiosity-driven research.
The number of available researchers doesn’t tell you what’s actually required to make progress.
Thinking too hard about whether what you are doing actually is helping can lead to getting done nothing at all as Feymann experienced before we switched his approach.
It’s possible that at the present state of the AI safety field there are no clear roads to victory. If that’s the case then you would want to grow the AI safety field by letting researchers grow it more via curiosity-driven research.
The number of available researchers doesn’t tell you what’s actually required to make progress.