It sounds like what you call a breakthrough, I’d just call a “result”. In my understanding, it’d either have to open up an unexpected + promising new direction, or solve a longstanding problem in order to be considered a breakthrough.
Unfortunately, significant insights into alignment seem much rarer than “capabilities breakthroughs” (which are probably also more due to an accumulation of smaller insights, so even there one might simply say the field is moving fast)
It sounds like what you call a breakthrough, I’d just call a “result”. In my understanding, it’d either have to open up an unexpected + promising new direction, or solve a longstanding problem in order to be considered a breakthrough.
Unfortunately, significant insights into alignment seem much rarer than “capabilities breakthroughs” (which are probably also more due to an accumulation of smaller insights, so even there one might simply say the field is moving fast)