I agree. This wasn’t meant as an object level discussion of whether the “alignment is doomed” claim is true. What I’d hopes to convey is that, even if the research is on the wrong track, we can still massively increase the chances of a good outcome, using some of the options I described
That said, I don’t think Starship is a good analogy. We already knew that such a rocket can work in theory, so it was a matter of engineering, experimentation, and making a big organization work. What if a closer analogy to seeing alignment solved was seeing a proof of P=NP this year?
I agree. This wasn’t meant as an object level discussion of whether the “alignment is doomed” claim is true. What I’d hopes to convey is that, even if the research is on the wrong track, we can still massively increase the chances of a good outcome, using some of the options I described
That said, I don’t think Starship is a good analogy. We already knew that such a rocket can work in theory, so it was a matter of engineering, experimentation, and making a big organization work. What if a closer analogy to seeing alignment solved was seeing a proof of P=NP this year?