I like to see some object level FAI research to ground meta level strategies like movement building. But movement building is very important right now, as SI needs to recruit and fund additional FAI researchers. Publishing a sequence on open problems in FAI seems like a very well grounded form of movement building.
My expectation on timeframes is a wide distribution. I am uncertain about how much work is needed to solve the problem, and how fast SI will be able to recruit researchers.
An explicit list of open problems seems closer to the metal of object level progress than, say, a better website. (I’m not implying that the less object level things aren’t very worth doing—they make the object level work possible).
I like to see some object level FAI research to ground meta level strategies like movement building. But movement building is very important right now, as SI needs to recruit and fund additional FAI researchers. Publishing a sequence on open problems in FAI seems like a very well grounded form of movement building.
My expectation on timeframes is a wide distribution. I am uncertain about how much work is needed to solve the problem, and how fast SI will be able to recruit researchers.
An explicit list of open problems seems closer to the metal of object level progress than, say, a better website. (I’m not implying that the less object level things aren’t very worth doing—they make the object level work possible).