I think if you led with this statement, you’d have a lot less unproductive argumentation. It sounds on a vibe level like you’re saying alignment is probably easy in your first statement. If you’re just saying it’s less hard than originally predicted, that sounds a lot more reasonable.
Rationalists have emotions and intuitions, even if we’d rather not. Framing the discussion in terms of its emotional impact matters.
Here we go!
I think if you led with this statement, you’d have a lot less unproductive argumentation. It sounds on a vibe level like you’re saying alignment is probably easy in your first statement. If you’re just saying it’s less hard than originally predicted, that sounds a lot more reasonable.
Rationalists have emotions and intuitions, even if we’d rather not. Framing the discussion in terms of its emotional impact matters.
That’s reasonable. I’ll edit the top comment to make this exact clarification.