Eliezer also hereby gives a challenge to the reader: Eliezer and Nate are thinking about writing up their thoughts at some point about OpenAI’s plan of using AI to aid AI alignment. We want you to write up your own unanchored thoughts on the OpenAI plan first, focusing on the most important and decision-relevant factors, with the intent of rendering our posting on this topic superfluous.
Our hope is that challenges like this will test how superfluous we are, and also move the world toward a state where we’re more superfluous / there’s more redundancy in the field when it comes to generating ideas and critiques that would be lethal for the world to never notice.
I strongly endorse this, based on previous personal experience with this sort of thing. Crowdsourcing routinely fails at many things, but this isn’t one of them (it does not routinely fail).
It’s a huge relief to see that there are finally some winning strategies, lately there’s been a huge scarcity of those.
I strongly endorse this, based on previous personal experience with this sort of thing. Crowdsourcing routinely fails at many things, but this isn’t one of them (it does not routinely fail).
It’s a huge relief to see that there are finally some winning strategies, lately there’s been a huge scarcity of those.