No, I don’t think that is the key difference. I think the reason that SIAI (at the time) payed attention to Karnofsky is that he was willing to signal his in-group membership and speak the local jargon, thereby preventing his criticisms from being immediately dismissed (I think MIRI has gotten better about this lately, but they’ve been pitching themselves so high-status that it’s screwing with my intuition about their likely behavior :/ )
No, I don’t think that is the key difference. I think the reason that SIAI (at the time) payed attention to Karnofsky is that he was willing to signal his in-group membership and speak the local jargon, thereby preventing his criticisms from being immediately dismissed (I think MIRI has gotten better about this lately, but they’ve been pitching themselves so high-status that it’s screwing with my intuition about their likely behavior :/ )