I feel pretty strongly that letting go of correctness in favor of any heuristic means you will end up with the wrong map, not just a smaller or fuzzier one. I don’t think that’s advice that should be universally given, and I’m not even sure how useful it is at all.
I think correctness applies—until it reaches a hard limit. Understanding what an intellectual community like LessWrong was able to generate as clusters of valuable knowledge is the most correct thing to do but in order to generate novel solutions, one must accept with bravery[1] that the ideas in this forum might have some holes that original ideas will emerge.
I assume that many people will be scared of challenging what is considered to be normal / generally accepted principles in LessWrong, but this I think is necessary in tackling grand challenges like solving the alignment problem.
I think correctness applies—until it reaches a hard limit. Understanding what an intellectual community like LessWrong was able to generate as clusters of valuable knowledge is the most correct thing to do but in order to generate novel solutions, one must accept with bravery[1] that the ideas in this forum might have some holes that original ideas will emerge.
I assume that many people will be scared of challenging what is considered to be normal / generally accepted principles in LessWrong, but this I think is necessary in tackling grand challenges like solving the alignment problem.