Schindler had a concrete thing he was able to do. He had a money->people pipeline. I think most of the ways rationalists are feeling smug about being ahead of the curve here boils down to an error that we are still making: okay you’ve made the update, now how does it propagate through the world model to generate meaningfully different actions? Who has taken action? Has anyone who has taken action talked about it anywhere? Do any of the proposed or taken actions look remotely helpful?
Schindler had a concrete thing he was able to do. He had a money->people pipeline. I think most of the ways rationalists are feeling smug about being ahead of the curve here boils down to an error that we are still making: okay you’ve made the update, now how does it propagate through the world model to generate meaningfully different actions? Who has taken action? Has anyone who has taken action talked about it anywhere? Do any of the proposed or taken actions look remotely helpful?