I’m not sure what you mean by “using bullet-pointed summaries of the 7 works stated in the post”. If you mean the past examples of good materials, I’m not sure how good of an idea that is. We don’t just want people to be rephrasings/”distillations” of single pieces of prior work.
I’m also not sure we literally tell you how to win, but yes, reading the instructions would be useful.
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’m not sure what you mean by “using bullet-pointed summaries of the 7 works stated in the post”. If you mean the past examples of good materials, I’m not sure how good of an idea that is. We don’t just want people to be rephrasings/”distillations” of single pieces of prior work.
I’m also not sure we literally tell you how to win, but yes, reading the instructions would be useful.
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.