I think the current direction of your thoughts are pointed in a not-that-helpful direction, but I’m having a hard time putting it into words.
I do think AI’s a big deal, and it makes sense to pursue figuring out how to help.
I think a lot of your thoughts here are pointed in a.… modeling a potentially adversarial-environment direction. And, I don’t think it’s wrong that there’s some amount of adversarial-environment-worth-modeling, but I think it’s the sort of thing more likely to drive you crazy if you focus on it without some kind of good grounding.
I think I recommend people in your position start by modeling AI from a technical standpoint of “how do we understand what an AI system is doing?”, which you can do in “single player mode” without worrying about what everyone else is doing. I think that’s a kind of necessary step to be able to think useful thoughts about the multiplayer scenarios.
(taking a further step back from AI – I think “I want to do something that matters to humanity” is a good goal, but even without AI specifics it’s a goal that some people follow off a cliff and I recommend having some caution and guardrails about)
I think the current direction of your thoughts are pointed in a not-that-helpful direction, but I’m having a hard time putting it into words.
I do think AI’s a big deal, and it makes sense to pursue figuring out how to help.
I think a lot of your thoughts here are pointed in a.… modeling a potentially adversarial-environment direction. And, I don’t think it’s wrong that there’s some amount of adversarial-environment-worth-modeling, but I think it’s the sort of thing more likely to drive you crazy if you focus on it without some kind of good grounding.
I think I recommend people in your position start by modeling AI from a technical standpoint of “how do we understand what an AI system is doing?”, which you can do in “single player mode” without worrying about what everyone else is doing. I think that’s a kind of necessary step to be able to think useful thoughts about the multiplayer scenarios.
(taking a further step back from AI – I think “I want to do something that matters to humanity” is a good goal, but even without AI specifics it’s a goal that some people follow off a cliff and I recommend having some caution and guardrails about)