My layperson guess is that once you’re told what to expect to see, you stop looking.
This makes Eliezer’s weirdtopia idea of science being kept secret so as not to spoil people’s fun of discovery more interesting—it’s not just that people would independently discover the same things (and I wonder what the protocol for sharing information would be), given enough time and intelligence, much more might get discovered.
My layperson guess is that once you’re told what to expect to see, you stop looking.
This makes Eliezer’s weirdtopia idea of science being kept secret so as not to spoil people’s fun of discovery more interesting—it’s not just that people would independently discover the same things (and I wonder what the protocol for sharing information would be), given enough time and intelligence, much more might get discovered.