I don’t agree or disagree. You have interesting ideas, but they don’t seem cohesive to me. Suggest giving them more thought, applying very specific hypotheses, and outlining arguments in favor/contra.
Even if my ideas are vague, shouldn’t rationality be applicable even at that stage? The idea of levels of intelligence (or hard intelligence ceilings) isn’t very specific either. “Are there unexpected/easy ways to get smarter?”, people should have some opinions about that even without my ideas. It’s safe to assume Eliezer doesn’t believe there’s an unknown way to get smarter (or that it’s easier to find such a way than to solve the Alignment problem).
My more specific hypotheses are related to guessing what such a way might be. But that’s not what you meant, I think.
I don’t agree or disagree. You have interesting ideas, but they don’t seem cohesive to me. Suggest giving them more thought, applying very specific hypotheses, and outlining arguments in favor/contra.
Even if my ideas are vague, shouldn’t rationality be applicable even at that stage? The idea of levels of intelligence (or hard intelligence ceilings) isn’t very specific either. “Are there unexpected/easy ways to get smarter?”, people should have some opinions about that even without my ideas. It’s safe to assume Eliezer doesn’t believe there’s an unknown way to get smarter (or that it’s easier to find such a way than to solve the Alignment problem).
My more specific hypotheses are related to guessing what such a way might be. But that’s not what you meant, I think.