I had formed an impression that the hope was that the big chain of short thinkers would in fact do a good enough job factoring their goals that it would end up comparable to one human thinking for a long time (and that Ought was founded to test that hypothesis)
That’s what I have in mind. If all goes well you can think of it like “a human thinking a long time.” We don’t know if all will go well.
It’s also not really clear what “a human thinking 10,000 years” means, HCH is kind of an operationalization of that, but there’s a presumption of alignment in the human-thinking-a-long-time that we don’t get for free here. (Of course you also wouldn’t get it for free if you somehow let a human live for 10,000 years...)
I had formed an impression that the hope was that the big chain of short thinkers would in fact do a good enough job factoring their goals that it would end up comparable to one human thinking for a long time (and that Ought was founded to test that hypothesis)
That’s what I have in mind. If all goes well you can think of it like “a human thinking a long time.” We don’t know if all will go well.
It’s also not really clear what “a human thinking 10,000 years” means, HCH is kind of an operationalization of that, but there’s a presumption of alignment in the human-thinking-a-long-time that we don’t get for free here. (Of course you also wouldn’t get it for free if you somehow let a human live for 10,000 years...)