In Pre-Crunch Time, here’s what I think we should be working on:
Problems that need to be solved in order that we can safely and usefully accelerate R&D, i.e. scalable oversight
Problems that will be hard to accelerate with R&D, e.g. very conceptual stuff, policy
Problems that you think, with a few years of grinding, could be reduced from hard-to-accelerate to easy-to-accelerate, e.g. ARC Theory
Notably, what ‘work’ looks like on these problems will depend heavily on which of the three buckets it belongs to.
In Pre-Crunch Time, here’s what I think we should be working on:
Problems that need to be solved in order that we can safely and usefully accelerate R&D, i.e. scalable oversight
Problems that will be hard to accelerate with R&D, e.g. very conceptual stuff, policy
Problems that you think, with a few years of grinding, could be reduced from hard-to-accelerate to easy-to-accelerate, e.g. ARC Theory
Notably, what ‘work’ looks like on these problems will depend heavily on which of the three buckets it belongs to.