felt as though the framework of these books provide an interesting lens to model systems and agents that could be of interest, and subsequently prove various properties that are necessary/faborable
Your feelings might be right! I don’t have a not a strong prior, and in general I’d say that people should follow their inner compass and work on what they’re excited about. It’s very hard to convey your illegible intuitions to others, and all too easy for social pressure to squash them. Not sure what someone should really do in this situation, beyond keeping your eyes on the hard problems of alignment and finding ways to get feedback from reality on your ideas as fast as possible.
Your feelings might be right! I don’t have a not a strong prior, and in general I’d say that people should follow their inner compass and work on what they’re excited about. It’s very hard to convey your illegible intuitions to others, and all too easy for social pressure to squash them. Not sure what someone should really do in this situation, beyond keeping your eyes on the hard problems of alignment and finding ways to get feedback from reality on your ideas as fast as possible.
Good that you mention this, will keep that mind!