That seems right to me, but I interpreted the above for advice for one office, potentially a somewhat smaller one. Seems fine to me to have one hub for people who think more through the lens of agency.
I mostly endorse having one office concentrate on one research agenda and be able to have high quality conversations on it, and the stated numbers of maybe 10 to 20% people working on strategy/meta sounds fine in that context. Still I want to emphasize how crucial they are—If you have no one to figure out the path between your technical work and overall reducing risk, you’re probably missing better paths and approaches (and maybe not realizing your work is useless).
Overall I’d say we don’t have enough strategy work being done, and believe it’s warranted to have spaces with 70% of people working on strategy/meta. I don’t think it was bad if the Lightcone office had a lot of strategy work. (We probably also don’t have enough technical alignment work, having more of both is probably good, if we coordinate properly)
Strong disagree. I think locking in particular paradigms of how to do AI safety research would be quite bad.
That seems right to me, but I interpreted the above for advice for one office, potentially a somewhat smaller one. Seems fine to me to have one hub for people who think more through the lens of agency.
I mostly endorse having one office concentrate on one research agenda and be able to have high quality conversations on it, and the stated numbers of maybe 10 to 20% people working on strategy/meta sounds fine in that context. Still I want to emphasize how crucial they are—If you have no one to figure out the path between your technical work and overall reducing risk, you’re probably missing better paths and approaches (and maybe not realizing your work is useless).
Overall I’d say we don’t have enough strategy work being done, and believe it’s warranted to have spaces with 70% of people working on strategy/meta. I don’t think it was bad if the Lightcone office had a lot of strategy work. (We probably also don’t have enough technical alignment work, having more of both is probably good, if we coordinate properly)