Honestly right now we’re far enough from the frontier that I think it makes sense for people to just do whatever and see what works, in the same way that I think most junior safety researchers shouldn’t worry too much about infohazards or capability externalities. For example, field-wide, I want to push back against AIFEC being just the for-profit startup-y area, or being purely about strategies that scale with inference compute, but it seems premature to tell individuals to avoid whole areas.
Honestly right now we’re far enough from the frontier that I think it makes sense for people to just do whatever and see what works, in the same way that I think most junior safety researchers shouldn’t worry too much about infohazards or capability externalities. For example, field-wide, I want to push back against AIFEC being just the for-profit startup-y area, or being purely about strategies that scale with inference compute, but it seems premature to tell individuals to avoid whole areas.