You can read more about how these technical problems relate to AGI failure modes and how they rank on importance, tractability, and crowdedness in Pragmatic AI Safety 5. I think the creators included this content in a separate forum post for a reason.
I felt some of the content in the PAIS series would’ve been great for the course, though the creators probably had a reason to exclude them and I’m not sure why.
The second group doesn’t necessarily care about why each research direction relates to reducing X-risk.
In this case I feel it could be better for the chapter on x-risk to be removed entirely. Might be better to not include it at all than to include it and mostly show quotes by famous people without properly engaging in the arguments.
Thanks for the comment!
I felt some of the content in the PAIS series would’ve been great for the course, though the creators probably had a reason to exclude them and I’m not sure why.
In this case I feel it could be better for the chapter on x-risk to be removed entirely. Might be better to not include it at all than to include it and mostly show quotes by famous people without properly engaging in the arguments.
From what I understand, Dan plans to add more object-level arguments soon.