Just one paper (AI safety or FAI design)...I will be very impressed. … I doubt I’ll have to donate even once within the next 50 years. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Comments like this are evidence that focus on getting papers into journals is important, relative to the amount of effort currently going into it.
And every time someone doesn’t make a comment like this, it’s evidence that such a focus is unimportant, so what makes you think it comes out one way rather than the other on net?
LessWrong seems significantly more likely than normal to produce vocal dissent (“I wouldn’t find this useful”) rather than silence. That said, LessWrong is probably also not the majority of AI researchers, who are the actual target audience, so using ourselves as a “test market” is probably flawed on a few levels...
Comments like this are evidence that focus on getting papers into journals is important, relative to the amount of effort currently going into it.
And every time someone doesn’t make a comment like this, it’s evidence that such a focus is unimportant, so what makes you think it comes out one way rather than the other on net?
LessWrong seems significantly more likely than normal to produce vocal dissent (“I wouldn’t find this useful”) rather than silence. That said, LessWrong is probably also not the majority of AI researchers, who are the actual target audience, so using ourselves as a “test market” is probably flawed on a few levels...