+1 to all this, and in particular I’m very strongly on board with rationality going beyond AI safety. I’m a big fan of LessWrong’s current nominal mission to “accelerate intellectual progress”, and when I’m thinking about making progress in a high-dimensional world, that’s usually the kind of progress I’m thinking about. (… Which, in turn, is largely because intellectual/scientific/engineering progress seem to be the “directions” which matter most for everything else.)
+1 to all this, and in particular I’m very strongly on board with rationality going beyond AI safety. I’m a big fan of LessWrong’s current nominal mission to “accelerate intellectual progress”, and when I’m thinking about making progress in a high-dimensional world, that’s usually the kind of progress I’m thinking about. (… Which, in turn, is largely because intellectual/scientific/engineering progress seem to be the “directions” which matter most for everything else.)