first-hand idea of what kinds of things even produce progress
I’d rather share second-hand ideas about how progress looks like based on a write up from someone with deep knowledge from multiple research directions than to spend next 5 years forming my own idiosyncratic first-hand empathic intuitions.
It’s not like Agent Foundations are 3cm / 5db / 7 dimensions of more progress than Circuits, but if there is no standardized quantity of progress, then why ought we believe that making 1000 different tools by 1000 people now is worse than those people doing research first before attempting to help with non-research skills?
I’d rather share second-hand ideas about how progress looks like based on a write up from someone with deep knowledge from multiple research directions than to spend next 5 years forming my own idiosyncratic first-hand empathic intuitions.
It’s not like Agent Foundations are 3cm / 5db / 7 dimensions of more progress than Circuits, but if there is no standardized quantity of progress, then why ought we believe that making 1000 different tools by 1000 people now is worse than those people doing research first before attempting to help with non-research skills?