It would be helpful for the discussion (and for me) if you stated an example of a legible problem vs. an illegible problem. I expect people might disagree on the specifics, even if they seem to agree with the abstract argument.
Legible problem is pretty easy to give examples for. The most legible problem (in terms of actually gating deployment) is probably wokeness for xAI, and things like not expressing an explicit desire to cause human extinction, not helping with terrorism (like building bioweapons) on demand, etc., for most AI companies.
Giving an example for an illegible problem is much trickier since by their nature they tend to be obscure, hard to understand, or fall into a cognitive blind spot. If I give an example of a problem that seems real to me, but illegible to most, then most people will fail to understand it or dismiss it as not a real problem, instead of recognizing it as an example of a real but illegible problem. This could potentially be quite distracting, so for this post I decided to just talk about illegible problems in a general, abstract way, and discuss general implications that don’t depend on the details of the problems.
But if you still want some explicit examples, see this thread.
It would be helpful for the discussion (and for me) if you stated an example of a legible problem vs. an illegible problem. I expect people might disagree on the specifics, even if they seem to agree with the abstract argument.
Legible problem is pretty easy to give examples for. The most legible problem (in terms of actually gating deployment) is probably wokeness for xAI, and things like not expressing an explicit desire to cause human extinction, not helping with terrorism (like building bioweapons) on demand, etc., for most AI companies.
Giving an example for an illegible problem is much trickier since by their nature they tend to be obscure, hard to understand, or fall into a cognitive blind spot. If I give an example of a problem that seems real to me, but illegible to most, then most people will fail to understand it or dismiss it as not a real problem, instead of recognizing it as an example of a real but illegible problem. This could potentially be quite distracting, so for this post I decided to just talk about illegible problems in a general, abstract way, and discuss general implications that don’t depend on the details of the problems.
But if you still want some explicit examples, see this thread.