I don’t think we disagree. The top-level comment said
experimented with hiring people to work on serious technical problems
and you said
You don’t have to think of it as hiring
So you were talking past each other a bit.
Also, you said:
When I started working on this topic, I wasn’t much invested in it, just wanted to get attention on LW. Wei has admitted to a similar motivation...
I feel like many people here focus too much on removing barriers and too little on creating incentives.
I think we can create a strong incentive landscape on LW for valuable work to be done (in alignment and in other areas); it’s just very important to get it right, and to not build something that can easily fall prey to adversarial goodheart (or even just plain old regressional goodheart). I’m very pro creating incentives (have been thinking a lot lately about how to do that, have got a few ideas that I think is good for this, will write it up for feedback from y’all when I get a chance).
I don’t think we disagree. The top-level comment said
and you said
So you were talking past each other a bit.
Also, you said:
I think we can create a strong incentive landscape on LW for valuable work to be done (in alignment and in other areas); it’s just very important to get it right, and to not build something that can easily fall prey to adversarial goodheart (or even just plain old regressional goodheart). I’m very pro creating incentives (have been thinking a lot lately about how to do that, have got a few ideas that I think is good for this, will write it up for feedback from y’all when I get a chance).