Worth noting that every one of the “not solved” problems was, in fact, well understood and proven impossible and/or solved for relaxed cases.
We don’t need to solve this now, we need to improve the solution enough to figure out ways to improve it more, or show where it’s impossible, before we build systems that are more powerful than we can at least mostly align. That’s still ambitious, but it’s not impossible!
Yes, the call to action of this post is that we need more epistemically diverse research!
This research community would be more epistemically healthy if we both researched what is possible for relaxed cases and what is not possible categorically under precise operationalisable definitions.
Worth noting that every one of the “not solved” problems was, in fact, well understood and proven impossible and/or solved for relaxed cases.
We don’t need to solve this now, we need to improve the solution enough to figure out ways to improve it more, or show where it’s impossible, before we build systems that are more powerful than we can at least mostly align. That’s still ambitious, but it’s not impossible!
Yes, the call to action of this post is that we need more epistemically diverse research!
This research community would be more epistemically healthy if we both researched what is possible for relaxed cases and what is not possible categorically under precise operationalisable definitions.