Yeah something in this space seems like a central crux to me.
I personally think (as a person generally in the MIRI-ish camp of “most attempts at empirical work are flawed/confused”), that it’s not crazy to look at the situation and say “okay, but, theoretical progress seems even more flawed/confused, we just need to figure out some how of getting empirical feedback loops.”
I think there are some constraints on how the empirical work can possibly work. (I don’t think I have a short thing I could write here, I have a vague hope of writing up a longer post on “what I think needs to be true, for empirical work to be helping rather than confusedly not-really-helping”)
Yeah something in this space seems like a central crux to me.
I personally think (as a person generally in the MIRI-ish camp of “most attempts at empirical work are flawed/confused”), that it’s not crazy to look at the situation and say “okay, but, theoretical progress seems even more flawed/confused, we just need to figure out some how of getting empirical feedback loops.”
I think there are some constraints on how the empirical work can possibly work. (I don’t think I have a short thing I could write here, I have a vague hope of writing up a longer post on “what I think needs to be true, for empirical work to be helping rather than confusedly not-really-helping”)