Hm, most of the people I’m thinking of are rather technical, e.g. Kevin Esvelt’s research on distributed secure research.
Coordination and incentive problems are of another nature and I only manage to be prescriptively optimistic. I’ve been interested in algorithms for decentralized economic planning for a while, plan to specialize in that area and am working with a local left-acc group to organize a think tank that works on these questions. Thanks to mechanism design taking off as a discipline and crypto hype fueling a lot of work on trustless computing, there’s actually a surprising amount of relevant research.
I can respect consciously prescriptive optimism <3
(I’d personally be more respectful to someone who was strong and sane enough to carry out a relatively simple plan to put dangerous mad scientists in Safety Level 5 facilities while they do their research behind a causal buffer (and also put rogue scientists permanently in jail if they do dangerous research outside of an SL5)… though I could also respect someone who found an obviously better path than this. I’m not committed to this, its just that when I grind out the math I don’t see much hope for any other option.)
Hm, most of the people I’m thinking of are rather technical, e.g. Kevin Esvelt’s research on distributed secure research.
Coordination and incentive problems are of another nature and I only manage to be prescriptively optimistic. I’ve been interested in algorithms for decentralized economic planning for a while, plan to specialize in that area and am working with a local left-acc group to organize a think tank that works on these questions. Thanks to mechanism design taking off as a discipline and crypto hype fueling a lot of work on trustless computing, there’s actually a surprising amount of relevant research.
I can respect consciously prescriptive optimism <3
(I’d personally be more respectful to someone who was strong and sane enough to carry out a relatively simple plan to put dangerous mad scientists in Safety Level 5 facilities while they do their research behind a causal buffer (and also put rogue scientists permanently in jail if they do dangerous research outside of an SL5)… though I could also respect someone who found an obviously better path than this. I’m not committed to this, its just that when I grind out the math I don’t see much hope for any other option.)