People currently give MIRI money in the hopes they will use it for alignment. Those people can’t explain concretely what MIRI will do to help alignment. By your standard, should anyone give MIRI money?
When you’re part of a cooperative effort, you’re going to be handing off tools to people (either now or in the future) which they’ll use in ways you don’t understand and can’t express. Making people feel foolish for being a long inferential distance away from the solution discourages them from laying groundwork that may well be necessary for progress, or even from exploring.
People currently give MIRI money in the hopes they will use it for alignment. Those people can’t explain concretely what MIRI will do to help alignment. By your standard, should anyone give MIRI money?
When you’re part of a cooperative effort, you’re going to be handing off tools to people (either now or in the future) which they’ll use in ways you don’t understand and can’t express. Making people feel foolish for being a long inferential distance away from the solution discourages them from laying groundwork that may well be necessary for progress, or even from exploring.