Why target speeding up alignment research during this crunch time period as opposed to just doing the work myself?
Conveniently, alignment work is the work I wanted to get done during that period, so this is nicely dual use. Admittedly, a reasonable fraction of the work will be on things which are totally useless at the start of such a period while I typically target things to be more useful earlier.
I also typically think the work I do is retargetable to general usages of ai (e.g., make 20 trillion dollars).
Beyond this, the world will probably be radically transformed prior to large scale usage of AIs which are strongly superhuman in most or many domains. (Weighting domains by importance.)
Why target speeding up alignment research during this crunch time period as opposed to just doing the work myself?
Conveniently, alignment work is the work I wanted to get done during that period, so this is nicely dual use. Admittedly, a reasonable fraction of the work will be on things which are totally useless at the start of such a period while I typically target things to be more useful earlier.
I also typically think the work I do is retargetable to general usages of ai (e.g., make 20 trillion dollars).
Beyond this, the world will probably be radically transformed prior to large scale usage of AIs which are strongly superhuman in most or many domains. (Weighting domains by importance.)