Currently, it takes a very long time to get an understanding of who is doing what in the field of AI Alignment and how good each plan is, what the problems are, etc.
Is this not ~normal for a field that it maturing? And by normal I also mean approximately unavoidable or ‘essential’. Like I could say ‘it sure takes a long time to get an understanding of who is doing what in the field of… computer science’, but I have no reason to believe that I can substantially ‘fix’ this situation in the space of a few months. It just really is because there is lots of complicated research going on by lots of different people, right? And ‘understanding’ what another researcher is doing is sometimes a really, really hard thing to do.
Thank you, I think there’s an error in my phrasing. I should have said:
Currently, it takes a very long time to get an idea of who is doing what in the field of AI Alignment and how good each plan is, what the problems are, etc.
Is this not ~normal for a field that it maturing? And by normal I also mean approximately unavoidable or ‘essential’. Like I could say ‘it sure takes a long time to get an understanding of who is doing what in the field of… computer science’, but I have no reason to believe that I can substantially ‘fix’ this situation in the space of a few months. It just really is because there is lots of complicated research going on by lots of different people, right? And ‘understanding’ what another researcher is doing is sometimes a really, really hard thing to do.
Sure, but that’s no reason not to try to make it easier!
Thank you, I think there’s an error in my phrasing.
I should have said:
not just that. It’s because the field isn’t organized at all.