Trees are air actually came from people reasoning across fields (physicians, ministers, chemists, not botanists). I buy the missing-basics point, but what’s the AI safety equivalent?
I think the cross-domain thing is confounded by basically all science pre modern era being done by polymaths. As an example I do not think you can validly reason that searching for bible codes are important for inventing calculus, aside from a general high-variance attitude to work.
Trees are air actually came from people reasoning across fields (physicians, ministers, chemists, not botanists). I buy the missing-basics point, but what’s the AI safety equivalent?
I think the cross-domain thing is confounded by basically all science pre modern era being done by polymaths. As an example I do not think you can validly reason that searching for bible codes are important for inventing calculus, aside from a general high-variance attitude to work.