MIRI’s attempt to solve technical alignment didn’t make the global situation significantly worse whereas OpenPhil’s funding of OpenAI and other “safety” work did.
Do you really think we’d be better off if no competent team with funding had made a sustained attempt to solve technical alignment? Alternatively, do you believe that there have been other competently-led sustained attempts to solve it outside of MIRI?
Eliezer said in an interview published on Youtube that “I did my crying in 2015” or words very similar to that, by which he meant that that is when (presumably after the founding of OpenAI) he realized the global situation is hopeless, which makes me wonder how you come to believe that “if OpenPhil had funded MIRI more in 2016, it would have been funding them to attempt” “to build recursively improving Friendly AI with a small team”.
MIRI’s attempt to solve technical alignment didn’t make the global situation significantly worse whereas OpenPhil’s funding of OpenAI and other “safety” work did.
Do you really think we’d be better off if no competent team with funding had made a sustained attempt to solve technical alignment? Alternatively, do you believe that there have been other competently-led sustained attempts to solve it outside of MIRI?
Eliezer said in an interview published on Youtube that “I did my crying in 2015” or words very similar to that, by which he meant that that is when (presumably after the founding of OpenAI) he realized the global situation is hopeless, which makes me wonder how you come to believe that “if OpenPhil had funded MIRI more in 2016, it would have been funding them to attempt” “to build recursively improving Friendly AI with a small team”.