Yes, I considered it. Ultimately we will need to establish ground rules on what is safe for publication and what isn’t. Presumably information which isn’t safe for publication will only be accessible to a selected group of individuals. Maybe MIRI already has such a repository, I can’t tell. Nevertheless, MIRI publishes much (most? all?) of its research.
I believe that the benefits of having a discussion group about FAI outweigh the risks by much. For one thing, much of the stuff we will discuss will only/mostly be useful to FAI as opposed to UFAI. For another, we need more people working on the problem. For yet another, everything published on the group will be mostly consumed by people interested in FAI so usually it will increase the probability of FAI construction more than the probability of UFAI construction.
Hi roland, thx for commenting!
Yes, I considered it. Ultimately we will need to establish ground rules on what is safe for publication and what isn’t. Presumably information which isn’t safe for publication will only be accessible to a selected group of individuals. Maybe MIRI already has such a repository, I can’t tell. Nevertheless, MIRI publishes much (most? all?) of its research.
I believe that the benefits of having a discussion group about FAI outweigh the risks by much. For one thing, much of the stuff we will discuss will only/mostly be useful to FAI as opposed to UFAI. For another, we need more people working on the problem. For yet another, everything published on the group will be mostly consumed by people interested in FAI so usually it will increase the probability of FAI construction more than the probability of UFAI construction.