(preface: writing and communicating is hard and that i’m glad you are trying to improve)
i sampled two:
this post was hard to follow, and didn’t seem to be very serious. it also reads off as unfamiliar with the basics of the AI Alignment problem (the proposed changes to gpt-4 don’t concretely address many/any of the core Alignment concerns for reasons addressed by other commentors)
this post makes multiple (self-proclaimed controversial) claims that seem wrong or are not obvious, but doesn’t try to justify them in-depth.
overall, i’m getting the impression that your ideas are 1) wrong and you haven’t thought about them enough and/or 2) you arent communicating them well enough. i think the former is more likely, but it could also be some combination of the both. i think this means that:
you should try to become more familiar with the alignment field, and common themes surrounding proposed alignment solutions and their pitfalls
you should consider spending more time fleshing out your writing and/or getting more feedback (whether it be by talking to someone about your ideas, or sending out a draft idea for feedback)
I did SERI-MATS in the winter cohort in 2023. I am as familiar with the alignment field as is possible without having founded it or been given a research grant to work in it professionally (which I have sought but been turned down in the past).
I’m happy to send out drafts, and occasionally I do, but the high-status people I ask to read my drafts never quite seem to have the time to read them. I don’t think this is because of any fault of theirs, but it also has not conditioned me to seek feedback before publishing things that seem potentially controversial.
Most of the mentors I have are, for natural reasons, very high-status people. I want to call out @Steven Byrnes as having been a notable exception to the trend of high-status people not responding to my drafts.
I can share my email address with anybody who DM’s me, if people are willing to read my drafts.
I’m glad to hear you got exposure to the Alignment field in SERI MATS! I still think that your writing reads off as though your ideas misunderstands core alignment problems, so my best feedback then is to share drafts/discuss your ideas with other familiar with the field. My guess is that it would be preferable for you to find people who are critical of your ideas and try to understand why, since it seems like they are representative of the kinds of people who are downvoting your posts.
(preface: writing and communicating is hard and that i’m glad you are trying to improve)
i sampled two:
this post was hard to follow, and didn’t seem to be very serious. it also reads off as unfamiliar with the basics of the AI Alignment problem (the proposed changes to gpt-4 don’t concretely address many/any of the core Alignment concerns for reasons addressed by other commentors)
this post makes multiple (self-proclaimed controversial) claims that seem wrong or are not obvious, but doesn’t try to justify them in-depth.
overall, i’m getting the impression that your ideas are 1) wrong and you haven’t thought about them enough and/or 2) you arent communicating them well enough. i think the former is more likely, but it could also be some combination of the both. i think this means that:
you should try to become more familiar with the alignment field, and common themes surrounding proposed alignment solutions and their pitfalls
you should consider spending more time fleshing out your writing and/or getting more feedback (whether it be by talking to someone about your ideas, or sending out a draft idea for feedback)
I did SERI-MATS in the winter cohort in 2023. I am as familiar with the alignment field as is possible without having founded it or been given a research grant to work in it professionally (which I have sought but been turned down in the past).
I’m happy to send out drafts, and occasionally I do, but the high-status people I ask to read my drafts never quite seem to have the time to read them. I don’t think this is because of any fault of theirs, but it also has not conditioned me to seek feedback before publishing things that seem potentially controversial.
Have you tried getting feedback rather than getting feedback from high-status people?
Most of the mentors I have are, for natural reasons, very high-status people. I want to call out @Steven Byrnes as having been a notable exception to the trend of high-status people not responding to my drafts.
I can share my email address with anybody who DM’s me, if people are willing to read my drafts.
I’m glad to hear you got exposure to the Alignment field in SERI MATS! I still think that your writing reads off as though your ideas misunderstands core alignment problems, so my best feedback then is to share drafts/discuss your ideas with other familiar with the field. My guess is that it would be preferable for you to find people who are critical of your ideas and try to understand why, since it seems like they are representative of the kinds of people who are downvoting your posts.