I guess, but I think of this as weighing two options:
worry about reputation and err towards false negatives in funding
don’t worry about reputation and err towards false positives in funding
I want to increase the chance that AI safety is addressed, and allowing more false positives in funding (since I assess most false positives to produce neutral outcomes relative to achieving AI safety) seems the better trade-off, so all else equal I prefer to worry less about reputation.
I think there are some arguments that reputation matters long term, but it’s not clear we have long enough for that to matter or that funding more stuff would actually hurt reputation, so lacking better arguments I remain convinced we should just fund more stuff more freely.
I guess, but I think of this as weighing two options:
worry about reputation and err towards false negatives in funding
don’t worry about reputation and err towards false positives in funding
I want to increase the chance that AI safety is addressed, and allowing more false positives in funding (since I assess most false positives to produce neutral outcomes relative to achieving AI safety) seems the better trade-off, so all else equal I prefer to worry less about reputation.
I think there are some arguments that reputation matters long term, but it’s not clear we have long enough for that to matter or that funding more stuff would actually hurt reputation, so lacking better arguments I remain convinced we should just fund more stuff more freely.