It seems to me that there has been enough unanswered criticism of the implications of coherence theorems for making predictions about AGI that it would be quite misleading to include this post in the 2019 review.
If the post is the best articulation of a line of reasoning that has been influential in people’s thinking about alignment, then even if there are strong arguments against it, I don’t see why that means the post is not significant, at least from a historical perspective.
By analogy, I think Searle’s Chinese Room argument is wrong and misleading, but I wouldn’t argue that it shouldn’t be included in a list of important works on philosophy of mind.
Would you (assuming you disagreed with it)? If not, what’s the difference here?
(Put another way, I wouldn’t think of the review as a collection of “correct” posts, but rather as a collection of posts that were important contributions to our thinking. To me this certainly qualifies as that.)
Your argument is plausible. On the other hand, this review is for 2019, not 2017 (when this post was written) nor 2013 (when this series of ideas was originally laid out). So it seems like it should reflect our current-ish thinking.
I note that the page for the review doesn’t have anything about voting criteria. This seems like something of an oversight?
If the post is the best articulation of a line of reasoning that has been influential in people’s thinking about alignment, then even if there are strong arguments against it, I don’t see why that means the post is not significant, at least from a historical perspective.
By analogy, I think Searle’s Chinese Room argument is wrong and misleading, but I wouldn’t argue that it shouldn’t be included in a list of important works on philosophy of mind.
Would you (assuming you disagreed with it)? If not, what’s the difference here?
(Put another way, I wouldn’t think of the review as a collection of “correct” posts, but rather as a collection of posts that were important contributions to our thinking. To me this certainly qualifies as that.)
Your argument is plausible. On the other hand, this review is for 2019, not 2017 (when this post was written) nor 2013 (when this series of ideas was originally laid out). So it seems like it should reflect our current-ish thinking.
I note that the page for the review doesn’t have anything about voting criteria. This seems like something of an oversight?
Context is important. If you publish something without comment or counterpoint, you’re hinting that it’s to be taken as true.