What I was getting at was coming up with systems of who to take seriously to match the map to the territory isn’t a replacement for knowing or learning how to do so independently. It was a tangent. I should’ve pointed that out. As you pointed out, it doesn’t cause serious problems except in uncommon cases like working on AI alignment.
What I was getting at was coming up with systems of who to take seriously to match the map to the territory isn’t a replacement for knowing or learning how to do so independently. It was a tangent. I should’ve pointed that out. As you pointed out, it doesn’t cause serious problems except in uncommon cases like working on AI alignment.