Relevance of prior Theoretical ML work to alignment, research on obfuscation in theoretical cryptography as it relates to interpretability, theory underlying various phenomena such as grokking. Disclaimer: This list is very partial and just thrown together.
For what it’s worth my brain thinks of all of these as ‘deep interesting ideas’ which intuitively your post might have pushed me away from. Just noticing that I’d be super careful to not use this idea as a curiosity-killer.
Relevance of prior Theoretical ML work to alignment, research on obfuscation in theoretical cryptography as it relates to interpretability, theory underlying various phenomena such as grokking. Disclaimer: This list is very partial and just thrown together.
From these vague terms it’s a little hard to say what you have in mind. They sound pretty deep to me however.
It seems your true rejection is not really about deep ideas per se, more so the particular flavor of ideas popular on this website.
Perhaps it would be an idea to write a post on why you are bullish on these research directions?
For what it’s worth my brain thinks of all of these as ‘deep interesting ideas’ which intuitively your post might have pushed me away from. Just noticing that I’d be super careful to not use this idea as a curiosity-killer.