For example, ARC’s report on ELK describes at least 10 difficulties of the same type and severity as the ~20 technical difficulties raised in Eliezer’s list.
I skimmed through the report and didn’t find anything that looked like a centralized bullet point list of difficulties. I think it’s valuable in general if people say what the problems are that they’re trying to solve, and then collect them into a place so people can look them over simultaneously. I realize I haven’t done enough of this myself, but if you’ve already written up the component pieces, that can make it easier to collect the bullet list.
I’m not sure if you are saying that you skimmed the report right now and couldn’t find the list, or that you think that it was a mistake for the report not to contain a “centralized bullet point list of difficulties.”
If you are currently looking for the list of difficulties: see the long footnote.
If you think the ELK report should have contained such a list: I definitely don’t think we wrote this report optimally, but we tried our best and I’m not convinced this would be an improvement. The report is about one central problem that we attempt to state at the very top. Then there are a series of sections organized around possible solutions and the problems with those solutions, which highlight many of the general difficulties. I don’t intuitively feel like a bulleted list of difficulties would have been a better way to describe the difficulties.
I skimmed through the report and didn’t find anything that looked like a centralized bullet point list of difficulties. I think it’s valuable in general if people say what the problems are that they’re trying to solve, and then collect them into a place so people can look them over simultaneously. I realize I haven’t done enough of this myself, but if you’ve already written up the component pieces, that can make it easier to collect the bullet list.
I’m not sure if you are saying that you skimmed the report right now and couldn’t find the list, or that you think that it was a mistake for the report not to contain a “centralized bullet point list of difficulties.”
If you are currently looking for the list of difficulties: see the long footnote.
If you think the ELK report should have contained such a list: I definitely don’t think we wrote this report optimally, but we tried our best and I’m not convinced this would be an improvement. The report is about one central problem that we attempt to state at the very top. Then there are a series of sections organized around possible solutions and the problems with those solutions, which highlight many of the general difficulties. I don’t intuitively feel like a bulleted list of difficulties would have been a better way to describe the difficulties.