It seems to me that Eliezer overrates the concept of a simple core of general intelligence, whereas Paul underrates it. Or, alternatively: it feels like Eliezer is leaning too heavily on the example of humans, and Paul is leaning too heavily on evidence from existing ML systems which don’t generalise very well.
I don’t think this is a particularly insightful or novel view, but it seems worth explicitly highlighting that you don’t have to side with one worldview or the other when evaluating the debates between them. (Although I’d caution not to just average their two views—instead, try to identify Eliezer’s best arguments, and Paul’s best arguments, and reconcile them.)
It seems to me that Eliezer overrates the concept of a simple core of general intelligence, whereas Paul underrates it. Or, alternatively: it feels like Eliezer is leaning too heavily on the example of humans, and Paul is leaning too heavily on evidence from existing ML systems which don’t generalise very well.
I don’t think this is a particularly insightful or novel view, but it seems worth explicitly highlighting that you don’t have to side with one worldview or the other when evaluating the debates between them. (Although I’d caution not to just average their two views—instead, try to identify Eliezer’s best arguments, and Paul’s best arguments, and reconcile them.)