That’s fair, but when I said “alignment” I was thinking about agent foundations in particular. Which does focus more on understanding most prosaic alignment work.
Yeah, this really does feel like the modern version of the mostly unproductive AGI/ASI/superintelligence debates, where people have implicitly different bars for what counts and doesn’t count for these concepts, and this was due to different empirical beliefs that were only somewhat validated for people thinking about AI seriously, because things that were assumed to be bundled came apart.
That’s fair, but when I said “alignment” I was thinking about agent foundations in particular. Which does focus more on understanding most prosaic alignment work.
Yeah, this really does feel like the modern version of the mostly unproductive AGI/ASI/superintelligence debates, where people have implicitly different bars for what counts and doesn’t count for these concepts, and this was due to different empirical beliefs that were only somewhat validated for people thinking about AI seriously, because things that were assumed to be bundled came apart.