I want to like the AI alignment podcast, but I feel like Lucas is over-emphasizing thinking new thoughts and asking challenging questions. When this goes wrong (it felt like ~30% of this episode, but maybe this is a misrecollection), it ends up taking too much effort to understand for not enough payoff.
There are sometimes some big words and abstruse concepts dragged in, just to talk about some off-the-cuff question and then soon jump to another. But I don’t think that’s what I want as a member of the audience. I’d prefer a gentler approach that used smaller words and broke down the abstruse concepts more, and generated interest by delving into interesting parts of “obvious” questions, rather than jumping to new questions.
In short, I think I’d prefer a more curiosity-based interviewing style—I like it most when he’s asking the guests what they think, and why they think that, and what they think is important. I don’t know if you (dear reader) have checked out Sean Carroll’s podcast, but his style is sort of an extreme of this.
I want to like the AI alignment podcast, but I feel like Lucas is over-emphasizing thinking new thoughts and asking challenging questions. When this goes wrong (it felt like ~30% of this episode, but maybe this is a misrecollection), it ends up taking too much effort to understand for not enough payoff.
There are sometimes some big words and abstruse concepts dragged in, just to talk about some off-the-cuff question and then soon jump to another. But I don’t think that’s what I want as a member of the audience. I’d prefer a gentler approach that used smaller words and broke down the abstruse concepts more, and generated interest by delving into interesting parts of “obvious” questions, rather than jumping to new questions.
In short, I think I’d prefer a more curiosity-based interviewing style—I like it most when he’s asking the guests what they think, and why they think that, and what they think is important. I don’t know if you (dear reader) have checked out Sean Carroll’s podcast, but his style is sort of an extreme of this.