Well, I am talking about creating games, not playing them if that was unclear. I think that is significantly harder than making games. It took over a thousand hours of practice to get good. I think AI alignment is a lot harder, but I think the same pattern applies to some extent. For example, asking the question “What will this project look like if it goes really well is a good question.” Why well when John asked this question to a bunch of people he got good results. I have not thought about why you get good results, but asking this question. But I am pretty sure I could understand it better, and that is likely to be useful, compared to not understanding. But clearly, you can get benefits even when you don’t understand.
Most of the time when you are applying a technique you will just be applying the technique. You will normally not retrieve all of the knowledge of why this technique works before using it. And it works fine. The knowledge about why the technique is mostly useful for refining the technique is my guess. However, applying the refined technique does not require retrieving the knowledge. In fact, you might often forget the knowledge but not the refined technique, i.e. the procedural knowledge.
Well, I am talking about creating games, not playing them if that was unclear. I think that is significantly harder than making games. It took over a thousand hours of practice to get good. I think AI alignment is a lot harder, but I think the same pattern applies to some extent. For example, asking the question “What will this project look like if it goes really well is a good question.” Why well when John asked this question to a bunch of people he got good results. I have not thought about why you get good results, but asking this question. But I am pretty sure I could understand it better, and that is likely to be useful, compared to not understanding. But clearly, you can get benefits even when you don’t understand.
Most of the time when you are applying a technique you will just be applying the technique. You will normally not retrieve all of the knowledge of why this technique works before using it. And it works fine. The knowledge about why the technique is mostly useful for refining the technique is my guess. However, applying the refined technique does not require retrieving the knowledge. In fact, you might often forget the knowledge but not the refined technique, i.e. the procedural knowledge.