There was a LW post I saw a few days ago, titled/point being “focus on areas where it seems like the rest of the [AI alignment / rationality/ EA] field seems to be missing something you think is obvious”.
If I had more slack, I’d do these more directly myself. For now, I’ll list them here in shortform.
Here are some Things I Think The Field Is Clearly Dropping The Ball On:
math wiki (see my recent (5 Mar 2023) comments about a math website, and my related shortform)
combing through all existing math to find possibly-useful things for AIS
central omni-repository of ALL ais knowledge (I hadn’t heard of Stampy except by accident!)
recruiting child prodigies
recruiting existing math/physics/CS geniuses, or even (GASP) not-quite-geniuses!
one-central-counter/arguments site to convince people of AGI dangers
discord server that functions kinda like stackoverflow (more helpful users get socially incentivized with --> more discord role “medals”), for alignment tech/maths questions.
recreating useful-sounding infrastructure (Bountied Rationality, reciprocity.io) in ways that don’t require people to login with Facebook or use Facebook or have a Facebook account or interact with Facebook asdjukjfhljkusdhfjksdhafkljhsdjklfhsda I though Zvi already told us to avoid this years ago!
There was a LW post I saw a few days ago, titled/point being “focus on areas where it seems like the rest of the [AI alignment / rationality/ EA] field seems to be missing something you think is obvious”.
If I had more slack, I’d do these more directly myself. For now, I’ll list them here in shortform.
Here are some Things I Think The Field Is Clearly Dropping The Ball On:
math wiki (see my recent (5 Mar 2023) comments about a math website, and my related shortform)
combing through all existing math to find possibly-useful things for AIS
central omni-repository of ALL ais knowledge (I hadn’t heard of Stampy except by accident!)
recruiting child prodigies
recruiting existing math/physics/CS geniuses, or even (GASP) not-quite-geniuses!
one-central-counter/arguments site to convince people of AGI dangers
discord server that functions kinda like stackoverflow (more helpful users get socially incentivized with --> more discord role “medals”), for alignment tech/maths questions.
recreating useful-sounding infrastructure (Bountied Rationality, reciprocity.io) in ways that don’t require people to login with Facebook or use Facebook or have a Facebook account or interact with Facebook asdjukjfhljkusdhfjksdhafkljhsdjklfhsda I though Zvi already told us to avoid this years ago!