While I think the basic analysis looks directionally correct, I wonder if in places it’s a bit oversimplified (like maybe you could usefully unpack the concept of “deliberate steering”)
Seems fine for early work on this?
Empirically, the concept doesn’t seem to have been catchy
I think that we’ve done more to spread the general idea than the specific “choice transition” frame or name
Maybe we could have done better; maybe that’s just OK
I sometimes wish the post was shorter, to give people a crisper pointer to the core idea?
There’s a problem here of multiple audiences
Possible it should have a short summary piece too somewhere
Overall I’m really happy with this post.
It crystallized a bunch of thoughts I’d had for a while before this, and has been useful as a conceptual building block that’s fed into my general thinking about the situation with AI, and the value of accelerating tools to improve epistemics and coordination. I often find myself wanting to link people to it.
Possible weaknesses:
While I think the basic analysis looks directionally correct, I wonder if in places it’s a bit oversimplified (like maybe you could usefully unpack the concept of “deliberate steering”)
Seems fine for early work on this?
Empirically, the concept doesn’t seem to have been catchy
I think that we’ve done more to spread the general idea than the specific “choice transition” frame or name
Maybe we could have done better; maybe that’s just OK
I sometimes wish the post was shorter, to give people a crisper pointer to the core idea?
There’s a problem here of multiple audiences
Possible it should have a short summary piece too somewhere