niplav comments on “Safety as a Scientific Pursuit” (2024)

[niplav]

Assumptions are	Continuous	Discountinuous
Inductive[1]	Most of ML	Not sure? Maybe Gould, physicists
Deductive	Christiano, Shulman, OpenPhil	Yudkowsky, most of MIRI

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   I like it better than “rationalist” and “empiricist”

[Tom McGrath]

Thanks! I really like inductive vs deductive and would probably have used them if I’d thought of it.