Yeah so to be clear, I do actually think strategy research is pretty important, I just notice that in practice most of the strategy write-ups that I actually read do not actually enlighten me very much, whereas it’s not so uncommon to read technical write-ups that seem to really move our understanding forward. I guess it’s more that doing truly useful strategy research is just ultra difficult. I do think that, for example, some of Bostrom’s and Yudkowsky’s early strategy write-ups were ultra useful and important.
Yeah so to be clear, I do actually think strategy research is pretty important, I just notice that in practice most of the strategy write-ups that I actually read do not actually enlighten me very much, whereas it’s not so uncommon to read technical write-ups that seem to really move our understanding forward. I guess it’s more that doing truly useful strategy research is just ultra difficult. I do think that, for example, some of Bostrom’s and Yudkowsky’s early strategy write-ups were ultra useful and important.