at that point they’re selected pretty heavily for also finding lots of stuff about alignment.
An annoying thing is, just as I sometimes read Yann LeCun or Steven Pinker or Jeff Hawkins, and I extract some bits of insight from them while ignoring all the stupid things they say about the alignment problem, by the same token I imagine other people might read my posts, and extract some bits of insight from me while ignoring all the wise things I say about the alignment problem. :-P
That said, I do definitely put some nonzero weight on those kinds of considerations. :)
An annoying thing is, just as I sometimes read Yann LeCun or Steven Pinker or Jeff Hawkins, and I extract some bits of insight from them while ignoring all the stupid things they say about the alignment problem, by the same token I imagine other people might read my posts, and extract some bits of insight from me while ignoring all the wise things I say about the alignment problem. :-P
That said, I do definitely put some nonzero weight on those kinds of considerations. :)