This feels kind of like a semantic disagreement to me. To ground it, it’s probably worth considering whether further research on the CCS-style work I posted would also be useful for self-driving cards (or other applications). I think that would depend on whether the work improves the robustness of the contrastive probing regardless of what is being probed for (which would be generically useful), or whether it improves the probing specifically for truthfulness in systems that have a conception of truthfulness , possibly by improving the constraints or adding additional constraints (less useful for other systems). I think both would be good, but I’m uncertain which would be more useful to pursue if one is motivated by reducing x-risk from misalignment.
I see your point here about generally strengthening methods versus specifically refining them for an application. I think this is a useful distinction. But I’m all about putting a good amount of emphasis on connections between this work and different applications. I feel like at this point, we have probably cruxed.
This feels kind of like a semantic disagreement to me. To ground it, it’s probably worth considering whether further research on the CCS-style work I posted would also be useful for self-driving cards (or other applications). I think that would depend on whether the work improves the robustness of the contrastive probing regardless of what is being probed for (which would be generically useful), or whether it improves the probing specifically for truthfulness in systems that have a conception of truthfulness , possibly by improving the constraints or adding additional constraints (less useful for other systems). I think both would be good, but I’m uncertain which would be more useful to pursue if one is motivated by reducing x-risk from misalignment.
I see your point here about generally strengthening methods versus specifically refining them for an application. I think this is a useful distinction. But I’m all about putting a good amount of emphasis on connections between this work and different applications. I feel like at this point, we have probably cruxed.