Couldn’t you say the same thing about basically any problem? “Problem X is really quite simple. It can be distilled down to these steps: 1. Solve problem X. There, wasn’t that simple?”
I think the distillation needs to (1) be correct and (2) resonate with people. It’s really hard to find a distillation that meets these two criteria. Finding such distillations is a good part of what a tech sector product manager spends their time doing.
I’m not at all sure that my distillation of AI safety meets those two.
So are you saying that my distillation didn’t unpack the problem sufficiently to be helpful (in which case I agree but that wasn’t my goal), or are you saying that I missed something important / included something unimportant?
Couldn’t you say the same thing about basically any problem? “Problem X is really quite simple. It can be distilled down to these steps: 1. Solve problem X. There, wasn’t that simple?”
I think the distillation needs to (1) be correct and (2) resonate with people. It’s really hard to find a distillation that meets these two criteria. Finding such distillations is a good part of what a tech sector product manager spends their time doing.
I’m not at all sure that my distillation of AI safety meets those two.
The “correct” part is what everyone is concerned about, though.
So are you saying that my distillation didn’t unpack the problem sufficiently to be helpful (in which case I agree but that wasn’t my goal), or are you saying that I missed something important / included something unimportant?