I have no particular attachments to SIAI and would love to see a more effective Singularitarian organization formed if that were possible. I’m just having genuine trouble understanding why you think this new proposed organization will be able to do more effective FAI research. Perhaps you could use these few weeks off to ask some trusted advisors how to better communicate this point. (I understand you have sensitive information that you can’t reveal, but I’m guessing that you can do better even within that constraint.)
Perhaps you could use these few weeks off to ask some trusted advisors how to better communicate this point.
This is exactly the strategy I’ve decided to enact, e.g. talking to Anna. Thanks for being… gentle, I suppose? I’ve been getting a lot of flak lately, it’s nice to get some non-insulting advice sometimes. :)
(Somehow I completely failed to communicate the tentativeness of the ideas I was throwing around; in my head I was giving it about a 3% chance that I’d actually work on helping build an organization but I seem to have given off an impression of about 30%. I think this caused everyone’s brains to enter politics mode, which is not a good mode for brains to be in.)
I have no particular attachments to SIAI and would love to see a more effective Singularitarian organization formed if that were possible.
It’s rather strange how the SIAI is secretive. The military projects are secretive, the commercial projects are secretive alas: so few value transparency. An open project would surely do better, through being more obviously trustworthy and accountable, being better able to use talent across the internet, etc. I figure if the SIAI persists in not getting to grips with this issue, some other organisation will.
I have no particular attachments to SIAI and would love to see a more effective Singularitarian organization formed if that were possible. I’m just having genuine trouble understanding why you think this new proposed organization will be able to do more effective FAI research. Perhaps you could use these few weeks off to ask some trusted advisors how to better communicate this point. (I understand you have sensitive information that you can’t reveal, but I’m guessing that you can do better even within that constraint.)
This is exactly the strategy I’ve decided to enact, e.g. talking to Anna. Thanks for being… gentle, I suppose? I’ve been getting a lot of flak lately, it’s nice to get some non-insulting advice sometimes. :)
(Somehow I completely failed to communicate the tentativeness of the ideas I was throwing around; in my head I was giving it about a 3% chance that I’d actually work on helping build an organization but I seem to have given off an impression of about 30%. I think this caused everyone’s brains to enter politics mode, which is not a good mode for brains to be in.)
It’s rather strange how the SIAI is secretive. The military projects are secretive, the commercial projects are secretive alas: so few value transparency. An open project would surely do better, through being more obviously trustworthy and accountable, being better able to use talent across the internet, etc. I figure if the SIAI persists in not getting to grips with this issue, some other organisation will.