Somehow absent from the objectives is “finding out if SI’s existence is at all warranted”. You also want people “deeply committed to AI risk reduction”, not people deeply committed to e.g. actually finding the truth (which could be that all properties of AI you take for true were a wrong wild guess, which should be considered highly likely due to shoot in the dark nature of those guesses).
This puts nail in your coffin completely. A former theologist building a religious organization. Jesus Christ, man.
Also, something else: in the game development there’s the recurring pattern of a newbie or newbies with MMORPG ideas who only needs to get super tech guys to implement it. Thing is, tech guys do not need those newbies at all, they with their ideas are a net negative (because the ideas are misinformed) and represent the category of people to be kept out of development entirely, and the worst that can be done is channelling the money through such newbies. I don’t see why you guys (SI, MMORPG development newbies, all sorts of startup founders whom only have ideas) even think you (instead of others) having the money to hire people to develop your ideas is not a net negative. You think you can have incredibly useful ideas without having powers to develop anything, while the fact is that the power to have useful ideas stems directly from the power to build those ideas bottom up. I think the best recommendation for those with money would be to hold on and not give them to SI, so that SI would not put incompetent ideas ahead and waste people time. All chances are AI risk reduction doesn’t even need your money, that kind of work won’t be someone’s first innovative work, and innovation pays off pretty damn well. You want to decrease AI risk, or you want awesome MMORPG made, or something—what ever you want, please do not funnel your money through this kind of idea guys. It really is net negative.
You think you can have incredibly useful ideas without having powers to develop anything, while the fact is that the power to have useful ideas stems directly from the power to build those ideas bottom up.
If I understand this article correctly, it is exactly about SIAI trying to attract the people with powers to develop and analyze FAI.
I think the best recommendation for those with money would be to hold on and not give them to SI, so that SI would not put incompetent ideas ahead and waste people time.
That seems like a negative self-fulfilling prophecy—don’t give money to SIAI; SIAI can’t pay developers; SIAI doesn’t develop anything; say: “I told you”.
SI had money enough to do far more than it did. To give money to SI is same as to
give money to an organization that would buy coal and just burn it—the SI would put money into wasting R&D effort on ideas of incompetent.
Somehow absent from the objectives is “finding out if SI’s existence is at all warranted”. You also want people “deeply committed to AI risk reduction”, not people deeply committed to e.g. actually finding the truth (which could be that all properties of AI you take for true were a wrong wild guess, which should be considered highly likely due to shoot in the dark nature of those guesses). This puts nail in your coffin completely. A former theologist building a religious organization. Jesus Christ, man.
Also, something else: in the game development there’s the recurring pattern of a newbie or newbies with MMORPG ideas who only needs to get super tech guys to implement it. Thing is, tech guys do not need those newbies at all, they with their ideas are a net negative (because the ideas are misinformed) and represent the category of people to be kept out of development entirely, and the worst that can be done is channelling the money through such newbies. I don’t see why you guys (SI, MMORPG development newbies, all sorts of startup founders whom only have ideas) even think you (instead of others) having the money to hire people to develop your ideas is not a net negative. You think you can have incredibly useful ideas without having powers to develop anything, while the fact is that the power to have useful ideas stems directly from the power to build those ideas bottom up. I think the best recommendation for those with money would be to hold on and not give them to SI, so that SI would not put incompetent ideas ahead and waste people time. All chances are AI risk reduction doesn’t even need your money, that kind of work won’t be someone’s first innovative work, and innovation pays off pretty damn well. You want to decrease AI risk, or you want awesome MMORPG made, or something—what ever you want, please do not funnel your money through this kind of idea guys. It really is net negative.
If I understand this article correctly, it is exactly about SIAI trying to attract the people with powers to develop and analyze FAI.
That seems like a negative self-fulfilling prophecy—don’t give money to SIAI; SIAI can’t pay developers; SIAI doesn’t develop anything; say: “I told you”.
SI had money enough to do far more than it did. To give money to SI is same as to give money to an organization that would buy coal and just burn it—the SI would put money into wasting R&D effort on ideas of incompetent.