I don’t like the way this post hints that schism and splitting are the same thing.
E.g. the split between CFAR and MIRI, and the creation of multiple other AI risk organizations (FHI, FLI, BERI, etc), fit the archipelago model, without being schism-like.
Hostility begets hostility, but agreeing to specialize in different things doesn’t have the same tendency to beget further specialization.
Fair points. That said, I don’t think the split between CFAR and MIRI is a destructive schism, they’re still in very close alignment with one another and part of the same broader project. Same for FHI, FLI, BERI, etc. -- but if someone had founded a “new MIRI” saying that MIRI was failing and their paradigms were fundamentally destructive and everyone should withdraw their support of MIRI and back the new organization, that would be schismatic in the way I warn about.
I don’t like the way this post hints that schism and splitting are the same thing.
E.g. the split between CFAR and MIRI, and the creation of multiple other AI risk organizations (FHI, FLI, BERI, etc), fit the archipelago model, without being schism-like.
Hostility begets hostility, but agreeing to specialize in different things doesn’t have the same tendency to beget further specialization.
Fair points. That said, I don’t think the split between CFAR and MIRI is a destructive schism, they’re still in very close alignment with one another and part of the same broader project. Same for FHI, FLI, BERI, etc. -- but if someone had founded a “new MIRI” saying that MIRI was failing and their paradigms were fundamentally destructive and everyone should withdraw their support of MIRI and back the new organization, that would be schismatic in the way I warn about.