Really wishing the new Agent Foundations team the best. (MIRI too, but its position seems more secured)
I think that naively, I feel pretty good about this potential split. If MIRI is doing much more advocacy work, that work just seems very different to Agent Foundations research.
This could allow MIRI to be more controversial and risk-taking without tying things to the Agent Foundations research, and that research could hypothetically more easily getting funding from groups that otherwise disagree with MIRI’s political views.
I hope that team finds good operations support or a different nonprofit sponsor of some kind.
Really wishing the new Agent Foundations team the best. (MIRI too, but its position seems more secured)
I think that naively, I feel pretty good about this potential split. If MIRI is doing much more advocacy work, that work just seems very different to Agent Foundations research.
This could allow MIRI to be more controversial and risk-taking without tying things to the Agent Foundations research, and that research could hypothetically more easily getting funding from groups that otherwise disagree with MIRI’s political views.
I hope that team finds good operations support or a different nonprofit sponsor of some kind.