I’m not sure whether this part of your comment is referring to the normative question or the forecasting question.
Normative. Say that aligning something much smarter/more complicated than you (or your processing**) is difficult. The obvious fix would be: can we make people smarter?* If digital enhancement is easier (which seems like it could be likely, at least for crude ways—more computers more processing (though this may be more difficult than it sounds—serial has to be finished, parallel has to be communicated, etc.).)
This might help with analysis, or something like bandwidth. (Being able to process more information might make it easier to analyze the output of a process—if we wanted to evaluate something GPT like thing’s ability to generate poetry, then if it can generate ‘poetry’ faster than we can read or rate, then we’re the bottle neck.)
*Or algorithms simpler/easier to understand.
**Better ways of analyzing chess might help someone understand a (current) position in a chess game better (or just allow phones to compete with humans (though I don’t know how much of this is better algorithms, versus more powerful phones)).
Normative. Say that aligning something much smarter/more complicated than you (or your processing**) is difficult. The obvious fix would be: can we make people smarter?* If digital enhancement is easier (which seems like it could be likely, at least for crude ways—more computers more processing (though this may be more difficult than it sounds—serial has to be finished, parallel has to be communicated, etc.).)
This might help with analysis, or something like bandwidth. (Being able to process more information might make it easier to analyze the output of a process—if we wanted to evaluate something GPT like thing’s ability to generate poetry, then if it can generate ‘poetry’ faster than we can read or rate, then we’re the bottle neck.)
*Or algorithms simpler/easier to understand.
**Better ways of analyzing chess might help someone understand a (current) position in a chess game better (or just allow phones to compete with humans (though I don’t know how much of this is better algorithms, versus more powerful phones)).