I guess it’s worth noting that the MIRI mission in particular is much less specific than the mission of e.g. an animal rights charity, or a person who has a specific project pitch? Like, “cause humanity to successfully navigate the acute risk period” is much more on the open-ended side of mission-space. For nearly any given X, it’s more plausible that it could be relevant to the MIRI mission than that it could be relevant to, say, someone who’s trying to build widgets.
I guess it’s worth noting that the MIRI mission in particular is much less specific than the mission of e.g. an animal rights charity, or a person who has a specific project pitch? Like, “cause humanity to successfully navigate the acute risk period” is much more on the open-ended side of mission-space. For nearly any given X, it’s more plausible that it could be relevant to the MIRI mission than that it could be relevant to, say, someone who’s trying to build widgets.
Yeah, agreed, that’s definitely part of what was making it a bit ambiguous for me.