rather than trying to come up with some techniques that seem useful at the current scale but will ultimately be a weak proxy
To clarify, this means you don’t hold the position I expressed. On the view I expressed, experiments using weak proxies are worthwhile even though they aren’t very informative
Hmm, so I still hold the view that they are worthwhile even if they are not informative, particularly for the reasons you seem to have pointed to (i.e. training up good human researchers to identify who has a knack for a specific style of research s.t. we can use them for providing initial directions to AIs automating AI safety R&D as well as serving as model output verifiers OR building infra that ends up being used by AIs that are good enough to do tons of experiments leveraging that infra but not good enough to come up with completely new paradigms).
To clarify, this means you don’t hold the position I expressed. On the view I expressed, experiments using weak proxies are worthwhile even though they aren’t very informative
Hmm, so I still hold the view that they are worthwhile even if they are not informative, particularly for the reasons you seem to have pointed to (i.e. training up good human researchers to identify who has a knack for a specific style of research s.t. we can use them for providing initial directions to AIs automating AI safety R&D as well as serving as model output verifiers OR building infra that ends up being used by AIs that are good enough to do tons of experiments leveraging that infra but not good enough to come up with completely new paradigms).