I think the frame of “trying to ‘solve the whole’ future is aking to gripping too hard” might be relevant for me changing my mind about research directions. But it still doesn’t present a positive vision for why one should work on e.g. incremental prosaic methods, so then it’s even less clear for me what areas to focus. I had been focusing on “actually solving the problm” in the more safety at all scales or permanent safety versions of the term, but I think even those directions might need to be minimally developed in the minimal superintelligence-assisted future? The article gives some clarity of vision to identifying which research directions might do meaningful “solving”, but still not uniquely picking out anything.
I think the frame of “trying to ‘solve the whole’ future is aking to gripping too hard” might be relevant for me changing my mind about research directions. But it still doesn’t present a positive vision for why one should work on e.g. incremental prosaic methods, so then it’s even less clear for me what areas to focus. I had been focusing on “actually solving the problm” in the more safety at all scales or permanent safety versions of the term, but I think even those directions might need to be minimally developed in the minimal superintelligence-assisted future? The article gives some clarity of vision to identifying which research directions might do meaningful “solving”, but still not uniquely picking out anything.
Sorry for moderately ramble-y comment