I do wish there were more LessWrong content focused on how to win, for real.
I mean, LessWrong users seem to care a lot about alignment, but if you really want to solve that problem, and you want to be efficient about it, it seems super obvious that there are better strategies than researching the problem yourself, like don’t spend 3+ years on a PhD but instead get 10 other people to work on the issue ; and that 10x s your efficiency already.
My point is that thinking about it rationally, it looks like there are ways to get orders of magnitude more progress done on alignment by doing something that is not researching the problem yourself.
So I would expect a LW focused on winning to talk a lot more about agency and power, and how to use these for good.
I do wish there were more LessWrong content focused on how to win, for real.
I mean, LessWrong users seem to care a lot about alignment, but if you really want to solve that problem, and you want to be efficient about it, it seems super obvious that there are better strategies than researching the problem yourself, like don’t spend 3+ years on a PhD but instead get 10 other people to work on the issue ; and that 10x s your efficiency already.
My point is that thinking about it rationally, it looks like there are ways to get orders of magnitude more progress done on alignment by doing something that is not researching the problem yourself.
So I would expect a LW focused on winning to talk a lot more about agency and power, and how to use these for good.