I definitely like the directions you are exploring in and I agree they are improvements over the implicit AGI lab directed concept. That’s a useful thing to keep in mind, but so is what keeps them from being final ideas.
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What do you think? Does that make sense at all, or maybe it seems more like a time wasting distraction? I have to admit I’m uncomfortable with the amount I have gotten stuck on the idea that championing this concept is a useful thing for me to be doing.
Glad you’re self-aware about this. I would focus less on championing the concept, and more on treating it as a hypothesis about a research approach which may or may not deliver benefits. I wouldn’t evangelize until you’ve got serious benefits to show, and show those benefits first (with the concept that delivered those benefits as more of a footnote).
I think the focus on “delivering benefits” is a good perspective. It feels complicated by my sense that a lot of the benefit of OIS is as an explanatory lens. When I want to discuss things I’m focused on, I want to discuss in terms of OIS and it feels like not using OIS terminology makes explanations more complicated. So in that regard I guess I need to clearly define and demonstrate the explanatory benefit. But the “research approach” focus also seems like a good thing to keep in mind.
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Glad you’re self-aware about this. I would focus less on championing the concept, and more on treating it as a hypothesis about a research approach which may or may not deliver benefits. I wouldn’t evangelize until you’ve got serious benefits to show, and show those benefits first (with the concept that delivered those benefits as more of a footnote).
I think the focus on “delivering benefits” is a good perspective. It feels complicated by my sense that a lot of the benefit of OIS is as an explanatory lens. When I want to discuss things I’m focused on, I want to discuss in terms of OIS and it feels like not using OIS terminology makes explanations more complicated. So in that regard I guess I need to clearly define and demonstrate the explanatory benefit. But the “research approach” focus also seems like a good thing to keep in mind.
Thanks for your perspective 🙏