This feels adjaecent to Critch’s post on Coordination Surveys, maybe worth thinking about the two concepts in conjunction.
A concern I had about the coordination surveys post is that it didn’t do as much to distinguish between surveys-as-information-gathering and surveys-as-coordination-tool (which felt superficially dark artsy at first glance), but I think a survey that explicitly disclaimed that it was for coordination rather than information gathering seems fine.
Good pointer! The idea here would be to predict the outcomes of that survey, to solve the problem of coordinating people over time, in addition to the problem of coordinating people at one point in time.
Also, Critch pointed to this in the context of surveys of the broader AI research community (in which case it might appear more dark artsy), I was pointing to use within the narrower x-risk/AI safety communities.
This feels adjaecent to Critch’s post on Coordination Surveys, maybe worth thinking about the two concepts in conjunction.
A concern I had about the coordination surveys post is that it didn’t do as much to distinguish between surveys-as-information-gathering and surveys-as-coordination-tool (which felt superficially dark artsy at first glance), but I think a survey that explicitly disclaimed that it was for coordination rather than information gathering seems fine.
Good pointer! The idea here would be to predict the outcomes of that survey, to solve the problem of coordinating people over time, in addition to the problem of coordinating people at one point in time.
Also, Critch pointed to this in the context of surveys of the broader AI research community (in which case it might appear more dark artsy), I was pointing to use within the narrower x-risk/AI safety communities.