Yeah, I don’t know what mesa optimizers are, either.
Well, I do. “Mesa optimizer” is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying “sub agent”. Someone with a humanities background , but no exposure to rationalism would find everything in this article comprehensible except “mesa optimizers”. They would also find most of the other material on this site far less comprehensible. Would they be entitled to dismiss it as nonsense?
I’m not referring to this article, but the original book it was reviewing, which is clearly nonsense, rather than veiled hints at something too dangerous to be explicitly described.
Yeah, I don’t know what mesa optimizers are, either.
Well, I do. “Mesa optimizer” is an unnecessarily obscure way of saying “sub agent”. Someone with a humanities background , but no exposure to rationalism would find everything in this article comprehensible except “mesa optimizers”. They would also find most of the other material on this site far less comprehensible. Would they be entitled to dismiss it as nonsense?
I’m not referring to this article, but the original book it was reviewing, which is clearly nonsense, rather than veiled hints at something too dangerous to be explicitly described.