The biggest benefit for me has come from using this list in conversation, when I am trying to explain the basics of AI risk to someone, or am generally discussing the topic. Before this list came out, I would often have to come up with an example of some specification gaming problem on the fly, and even though I would be confident that my example was representative, it couldn’t be sure that it actually happened, which often detracted from the point I was trying to make. After this list came out, I just had a pre-cached list of many examples that I could bring up at any point that I knew had actually happened, and where I could easily reference and find the original source if the other person wanted to follow up on that.
The biggest benefit for me has come from using this list in conversation, when I am trying to explain the basics of AI risk to someone, or am generally discussing the topic. Before this list came out, I would often have to come up with an example of some specification gaming problem on the fly, and even though I would be confident that my example was representative, it couldn’t be sure that it actually happened, which often detracted from the point I was trying to make. After this list came out, I just had a pre-cached list of many examples that I could bring up at any point that I knew had actually happened, and where I could easily reference and find the original source if the other person wanted to follow up on that.