Is there someone you’d point to as being a better “strategic thinker on the topic of existential risk from AGI”, as is the topic of discussion in this thread?
Good question. ARE there any A-tier strategists at all on x-risk? I’d nominate Stuart Russel. Hm. Even Yoshua Bengio is arguably also having a larger impact than Eliezer in some critical areas (policy).
For pure strategic competence, Amandeep Singh Gill.
Russell, Bengio, and Tallinn are good but not in the same league as Yudkowsky in terms of strategic thinking about AGI X-derisking. A quick search of Gill doesn’t turn up anything about existential risk but I could very easily have missed it.
Okay, I think I see the confusion. Your phrasing make it seem (to me at least) like Eliezer has had the biggest strategic impact on mitigating x-risk, and arguably also being the most competent there. I would really not be sure of that. But if we talk about strategically dissecting x-risk, without necessarily mitigating it, directly or indirectly, then maybe Eliezer would win. Still would maybe lean towards Stuart.
Gill IS having an impact that de facto mitigates x-risk, whether he uses the term or not. But he is not making people talk about it (without necessarily doing anything about it) as much as Eliezer. In that sense one could argue he isn’t really an x-risk champ.
Is there someone you’d point to as being a better “strategic thinker on the topic of existential risk from AGI”, as is the topic of discussion in this thread?
Good question. ARE there any A-tier strategists at all on x-risk? I’d nominate Stuart Russel. Hm. Even Yoshua Bengio is arguably also having a larger impact than Eliezer in some critical areas (policy).
For pure strategic competence, Amandeep Singh Gill.
Jaan Tallin. Maybe even Xue Lan.
Russell, Bengio, and Tallinn are good but not in the same league as Yudkowsky in terms of strategic thinking about AGI X-derisking. A quick search of Gill doesn’t turn up anything about existential risk but I could very easily have missed it.
Okay, I think I see the confusion. Your phrasing make it seem (to me at least) like Eliezer has had the biggest strategic impact on mitigating x-risk, and arguably also being the most competent there. I would really not be sure of that. But if we talk about strategically dissecting x-risk, without necessarily mitigating it, directly or indirectly, then maybe Eliezer would win. Still would maybe lean towards Stuart.
Gill IS having an impact that de facto mitigates x-risk, whether he uses the term or not. But he is not making people talk about it (without necessarily doing anything about it) as much as Eliezer. In that sense one could argue he isn’t really an x-risk champ.