Good question. I’m using the term “idea” pretty loosely and glossily.
Things that would meet this vague definition of “idea”:
The ELK problem (like going from nothing to “ah, we’ll need a way of eliciting latent knowledge from AIs”)
Identifying the ELK program as a priority/non-priority (generating the arguments/ideas that go from “this ELK thing exists” to “ah, I think ELK is one of the most important alignment directions” or “nope, this particular problem/approach doesn’t matter much”
An ELK proposal
A specific modification to an ELK proposal that makes it 5% better.
So new ideas could include new problems/subproblems we haven’t discovered, solutions/proposals, code to help us implement proposals, ideas that help us prioritize between approaches, etc.
How are you defining “idea” (or do you have a totally different way of looking at things)?
Thanks!
And to both examples, how are you conceptualizing a “new idea”? Cause I suspect we don’t have the same model on what an idea is.
Good question. I’m using the term “idea” pretty loosely and glossily.
Things that would meet this vague definition of “idea”:
The ELK problem (like going from nothing to “ah, we’ll need a way of eliciting latent knowledge from AIs”)
Identifying the ELK program as a priority/non-priority (generating the arguments/ideas that go from “this ELK thing exists” to “ah, I think ELK is one of the most important alignment directions” or “nope, this particular problem/approach doesn’t matter much”
An ELK proposal
A specific modification to an ELK proposal that makes it 5% better.
So new ideas could include new problems/subproblems we haven’t discovered, solutions/proposals, code to help us implement proposals, ideas that help us prioritize between approaches, etc.
How are you defining “idea” (or do you have a totally different way of looking at things)?