I’m one of the authors on the natural abstractions review you discuss and FWIW I basically agree with everything you say here. Thanks for the feedback!
We’ve shortened our abstract now:
We distill John Wentworth’s Natural Abstractions agenda by summarizing its key claims: the Natural Abstraction Hypothesis—many cognitive systems learn to use similar abstractions—and the Redundant Information Hypothesis—a particular mathematical description of natural abstractions. We also formalize proofs for several of its theoretical results. Finally, we critique the agenda’s progress to date, alignment relevance, and current research methodology.
At 62 words, it’s still a bit longer than your final short version but almost 3x shorter than our original version.
Also want to highlight that I strongly agree having TL;DRs at all is good. (Or Intros were the first 1-2 paragraphs are a good TL;DR, like in your post here).
I’m one of the authors on the natural abstractions review you discuss and FWIW I basically agree with everything you say here. Thanks for the feedback!
We’ve shortened our abstract now:
At 62 words, it’s still a bit longer than your final short version but almost 3x shorter than our original version.
Also want to highlight that I strongly agree having TL;DRs at all is good. (Or Intros were the first 1-2 paragraphs are a good TL;DR, like in your post here).
Oh yay. Thanks! Yeah that’s much better.