FWIW, I had a mildly negative reaction to this title. I agree with you, but I feel like the term “PSA” should be reserved for things that are really very straightforward and non-controversial, and I feel like it’s a bit of a bad rhetorical technique to frame your arguments as a PSA. I like the overall content of the post, but feel like a self-summarizing post title like “Most AI Alignment research is not parallelizable” would be better.
FWIW, I had a mildly negative reaction to this title. I agree with you, but I feel like the term “PSA” should be reserved for things that are really very straightforward and non-controversial, and I feel like it’s a bit of a bad rhetorical technique to frame your arguments as a PSA. I like the overall content of the post, but feel like a self-summarizing post title like “Most AI Alignment research is not parallelizable” would be better.
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I agree, and this assumes that the bottleneck is serial time, when this may not be the case.