Sure, agreed that if I have high confidence that letting the AI out of its sandbox doesn’t have too much of an upside in the short term (for example, if I ask it and that’s what it tells me and I trust its answer), then the opportunity costs of leaving it in its sandbox are easy to ignore.
Also agreed that N can potentially be very very large. In which case the opportunity costs of leaving it in its sandbox are hard to ignore.
Sure, agreed that if I have high confidence that letting the AI out of its sandbox doesn’t have too much of an upside in the short term (for example, if I ask it and that’s what it tells me and I trust its answer), then the opportunity costs of leaving it in its sandbox are easy to ignore.
Also agreed that N can potentially be very very large.
In which case the opportunity costs of leaving it in its sandbox are hard to ignore.