as well as of potentially-interested people wandering off to somewhere where they can actually do something that feels more real
From inside MIRI, I’ve been able to feel this one viscerally as genius-level people come to me and say “Wow, this has really opened my eyes. Where do I get started?” and (until now) I’ve had to reply “Sorry, we haven’t written down our technical research agenda anywhere” and so they go back to machine learning or finance or whatever because no, they aren’t going to learn 10 different fields and become hyper-interdisciplinary philosophers working on important but slippery meta stuff like Bostrom and Shulman.
From inside MIRI, I’ve been able to feel this one viscerally as genius-level people come to me and say “Wow, this has really opened my eyes. Where do I get started?” and (until now) I’ve had to reply “Sorry, we haven’t written down our technical research agenda anywhere” and so they go back to machine learning or finance or whatever because no, they aren’t going to learn 10 different fields and become hyper-interdisciplinary philosophers working on important but slippery meta stuff like Bostrom and Shulman.