If I didn’t speak English, so that their words appeared as meaningless noise to me, then I’d be much more uncertain about who to trust, and would probably defer to an average of the opinions of the top ML names, eg. Sutskever, Goodfellow, Hinton, LeCun, Karpathy, Benigo, etc.
Do you think it’d make sense to give more weight to people in the field of AI safety than to people in the field of AI more broadly?
I would, and I think it’s something that generally makes sense. Ie. I don’t know much about food science but on a question involving dairy, I’d trust food scientists who specialize in dairy more than I would trust food scientists more generally. But I would give some weight to non-specialist food scientists, as well as chemists in general, as well as physical scientists in general, with the weight decreasing as the person gets less specialized.
Do you think it’d make sense to give more weight to people in the field of AI safety than to people in the field of AI more broadly?
I would, and I think it’s something that generally makes sense. Ie. I don’t know much about food science but on a question involving dairy, I’d trust food scientists who specialize in dairy more than I would trust food scientists more generally. But I would give some weight to non-specialist food scientists, as well as chemists in general, as well as physical scientists in general, with the weight decreasing as the person gets less specialized.