You gave me food for thoughts. I hadn’t thought about your objection about growth (or at least pushing for growth). I think I disagree with the point about strategy research, since I believe that strategy research can help give a bird’s eye view of the field that is harder to get when exploring.
Yeah so to be clear, I do actually think strategy research is pretty important, I just notice that in practice most of the strategy write-ups that I actually read do not actually enlighten me very much, whereas it’s not so uncommon to read technical write-ups that seem to really move our understanding forward. I guess it’s more that doing truly useful strategy research is just ultra difficult. I do think that, for example, some of Bostrom’s and Yudkowsky’s early strategy write-ups were ultra useful and important.
You gave me food for thoughts. I hadn’t thought about your objection about growth (or at least pushing for growth). I think I disagree with the point about strategy research, since I believe that strategy research can help give a bird’s eye view of the field that is harder to get when exploring.
Yeah so to be clear, I do actually think strategy research is pretty important, I just notice that in practice most of the strategy write-ups that I actually read do not actually enlighten me very much, whereas it’s not so uncommon to read technical write-ups that seem to really move our understanding forward. I guess it’s more that doing truly useful strategy research is just ultra difficult. I do think that, for example, some of Bostrom’s and Yudkowsky’s early strategy write-ups were ultra useful and important.