the Sequences was, imo, one of the more effective recruiting strategies for alignment
I read the Sequences nearly a decade ago and it, along with “Superintelligence” are the main things that have made my worldview such that I think AIA is a hard problem and we are not on track to solve it, and as a result, I am trying to become an AIA researcher focusing on the hard problems.
It may be that there are many people out there considering the problem without support and without publishing their results because they don’t have any concrete, publishable results yet. I’m slowly getting to the point that I think I could describe a path to solving AIA (See here for my first attempt). But it’s still fuzzy and it’s taken a long time and a lot of coming back to consider the problem many times in between focusing on other things and without having enough traction on the problem to feel worth talking about.
But it’s now my main career and/or life goal now. I just finished my BSc and am going to spend until my convocation in November self studying and publishing articles and seeking roles or funding.
I read the Sequences nearly a decade ago and it, along with “Superintelligence” are the main things that have made my worldview such that I think AIA is a hard problem and we are not on track to solve it, and as a result, I am trying to become an AIA researcher focusing on the hard problems.
It may be that there are many people out there considering the problem without support and without publishing their results because they don’t have any concrete, publishable results yet. I’m slowly getting to the point that I think I could describe a path to solving AIA (See here for my first attempt). But it’s still fuzzy and it’s taken a long time and a lot of coming back to consider the problem many times in between focusing on other things and without having enough traction on the problem to feel worth talking about.
But it’s now my main career and/or life goal now. I just finished my BSc and am going to spend until my convocation in November self studying and publishing articles and seeking roles or funding.