I meant, reading them and making bullet pointed lists of all valuable statements, in order to minimize the risk of forgetting something that could have been a valuable addition. You make a very good point that there’s pitfalls with this strategy, like having a summary of too many details when the important thing is galaxy-brain framing that will demonstrate the problem to different types of influential people with the maximum success rate.
I think actually reading (and taking notes) on most/all of the 7 recommended papers that you guys listed is generally a winning strategy, both for winning the contest and for winning at solving alignment in time. But only for people who can do it without forgetting that they’re making something optimal/inspirational for minimizing absurdity heuristic, not fitting as many cohesive logic statements as they can onto a single sheet of paper.
In my experience, constantly thinking about the reader (and even getting test-readers) is a pretty fail-safe way to get that right.
I meant, reading them and making bullet pointed lists of all valuable statements, in order to minimize the risk of forgetting something that could have been a valuable addition. You make a very good point that there’s pitfalls with this strategy, like having a summary of too many details when the important thing is galaxy-brain framing that will demonstrate the problem to different types of influential people with the maximum success rate.
I think actually reading (and taking notes) on most/all of the 7 recommended papers that you guys listed is generally a winning strategy, both for winning the contest and for winning at solving alignment in time. But only for people who can do it without forgetting that they’re making something optimal/inspirational for minimizing absurdity heuristic, not fitting as many cohesive logic statements as they can onto a single sheet of paper.
In my experience, constantly thinking about the reader (and even getting test-readers) is a pretty fail-safe way to get that right.