What is important about citations is that they do actually provide the suggested information. The cited work should give evidence for the issue in question, or convincingly demonstrate its truth. If the cited work does cite yet another paper that is only loosely associated with the original thesis, it might become unfounded.
Take for example AI-boxing, what are you going to cite? Eliezer’s experiment solely relies on his credit and that of the participants of telling the truth, it doesn’t even meet the most basic scientific standards like peer review evaluation or reproducibility.
What is important about citations is that they do actually provide the suggested information. The cited work should give evidence for the issue in question, or convincingly demonstrate its truth. If the cited work does cite yet another paper that is only loosely associated with the original thesis, it might become unfounded.
Take for example AI-boxing, what are you going to cite? Eliezer’s experiment solely relies on his credit and that of the participants of telling the truth, it doesn’t even meet the most basic scientific standards like peer review evaluation or reproducibility.