How do people feel about the “AGI safety is grossly under-invested” messaging given current funding levels? Apparently some research indicates that smaller teams are more likely to make disruptive innovations (here is one place I read about this). My intuitive sense is that the AGI safety community already suffers from team sizes that are too large.
Hi John, Are you saying that there should be more small teams in AGI safety rather than increasing the size of the “big” teams like OpenAI safety group and MIRI? Or are you saying that AGI safety doesn’t need more people period?
Looks like MIRI is primarily 12 people. Does that count as “large”? My impression is that they’re not all working together on exactly the same narrow project. So do they count as 1 “team” or more than one?
The FLI AI grants go to a diverse set of little university research groups. Is that the kind of thing you’re advocating here?
ETA: The link you posted says that a sufficiently small team is: “I’d suspect this to be less than 15 people, but would not be very surprised if this was number was around 100 after all.” If we believe that (and I wouldn’t know either way), then there are no AGI safety teams on Earth that are “too large” right now.
How do people feel about the “AGI safety is grossly under-invested” messaging given current funding levels? Apparently some research indicates that smaller teams are more likely to make disruptive innovations (here is one place I read about this). My intuitive sense is that the AGI safety community already suffers from team sizes that are too large.
Hi John, Are you saying that there should be more small teams in AGI safety rather than increasing the size of the “big” teams like OpenAI safety group and MIRI? Or are you saying that AGI safety doesn’t need more people period?
Looks like MIRI is primarily 12 people. Does that count as “large”? My impression is that they’re not all working together on exactly the same narrow project. So do they count as 1 “team” or more than one?
The FLI AI grants go to a diverse set of little university research groups. Is that the kind of thing you’re advocating here?
ETA: The link you posted says that a sufficiently small team is: “I’d suspect this to be less than 15 people, but would not be very surprised if this was number was around 100 after all.” If we believe that (and I wouldn’t know either way), then there are no AGI safety teams on Earth that are “too large” right now.