I originally saw this on Twitter, and posted mine in response, but I feel in-depth discussion is probably more productive here, so I appreciate you cross-posting this :)
One thing I’m interested in is your position on technical research vs. policy work. At least for me, seeing someone from an organisation focused on technical alignment research claim that “technical research is ~90% likely to be [less] useful” is a little worrying. Is this position mainly driven by timeline worries (“we don’t have long, so the most important thing is getting governments to slow capabilities”) or by a general pessimism about the field of technical alignment research panning out at all?
I originally saw this on Twitter, and posted mine in response, but I feel in-depth discussion is probably more productive here, so I appreciate you cross-posting this :)
One thing I’m interested in is your position on technical research vs. policy work. At least for me, seeing someone from an organisation focused on technical alignment research claim that “technical research is ~90% likely to be [less] useful” is a little worrying. Is this position mainly driven by timeline worries (“we don’t have long, so the most important thing is getting governments to slow capabilities”) or by a general pessimism about the field of technical alignment research panning out at all?