Speaking for myself, I’m definitely excited about improving cooperation/bargaining/etc., and I think that working on technical problems could be a cost-effective way to help with that. I don’t think it’s obvious without really getting into the details whether this is more or less leveraged than technical alignment research. To the extent we disagree it’s about particular claims/arguments and I don’t think disagreements can be easily explained by a high-level aversion to political thinking.
(Clarifying in case I represent a meaningful part of the LW pushback, or in case other people are in a similar boat to me.)
Speaking for myself, I’m definitely excited about improving cooperation/bargaining/etc., and I think that working on technical problems could be a cost-effective way to help with that. I don’t think it’s obvious without really getting into the details whether this is more or less leveraged than technical alignment research. To the extent we disagree it’s about particular claims/arguments and I don’t think disagreements can be easily explained by a high-level aversion to political thinking.
(Clarifying in case I represent a meaningful part of the LW pushback, or in case other people are in a similar boat to me.)