If you don’t mind me asking — what was the motivation behind posting 3 separate posts on the same day with very similar content, rather than a single one?
It looks like a large chunk (around a ~quarter or a third or something similar) of the sentences in this post are identical to those in “Cost-effectiveness of student programs for AI safety research” or differ only slightly (by e.g. replacing the word “students” with “professionals” or “participants”).
The main overlap between Modeling the impact of AI safety field-building programs and the other two posts is the disclaimers, which we believe should be copied in all three posts, and the main QARY definition, which seemed significant enough to add. Beyond that, the intro post is distinct from the two analysis posts.
This post does have much in common with the Cost-effectiveness of student programs for AI safety research. The two post are structured in an incredibly similar manner. That being said, the sections, are doing the same analysis to different sets of programs. As such, the graphs/numbers/conclusions drawn may be different.
It’s plausible that we could’ve dramatically shortened the section “The model” from one of the posts. Ultimately, we did not decide to and instead let the reader decide if they wanted to skip. (This has the added benefit of making each post most self-contained.) However, we could see arguments for the opposing view.
If you don’t mind me asking — what was the motivation behind posting 3 separate posts on the same day with very similar content, rather than a single one?
It looks like a large chunk (around a ~quarter or a third or something similar) of the sentences in this post are identical to those in “Cost-effectiveness of student programs for AI safety research” or differ only slightly (by e.g. replacing the word “students” with “professionals” or “participants”).
Moreover, some paragraphs in both of those posts can be found verbatim in the introductory post, “Modeling the impact of AI safety field-building programs,” as well.
This can generate confusion, as people usually don’t expect blog posts to be this similar.
The main overlap between Modeling the impact of AI safety field-building programs and the other two posts is the disclaimers, which we believe should be copied in all three posts, and the main QARY definition, which seemed significant enough to add. Beyond that, the intro post is distinct from the two analysis posts.
This post does have much in common with the Cost-effectiveness of student programs for AI safety research. The two post are structured in an incredibly similar manner. That being said, the sections, are doing the same analysis to different sets of programs. As such, the graphs/numbers/conclusions drawn may be different.
It’s plausible that we could’ve dramatically shortened the section “The model” from one of the posts. Ultimately, we did not decide to and instead let the reader decide if they wanted to skip. (This has the added benefit of making each post most self-contained.) However, we could see arguments for the opposing view.