If you mean some parts of technical alignment, then perhaps that’s true, but I mean alignment in the broad sense of creating good outcomes.
> AI researchers are more in the former category
Yeah but people in the former category don’t matter much in terms of outcomes. Making a better sparse autoencoder won’t change the world at the margin, just like technocrats working to make soviet central planning better ultimately didn’t change the world because they were making incremental progress in the wrong direction.
If you mean some parts of technical alignment, then perhaps that’s true, but I mean alignment in the broad sense of creating good outcomes.
> AI researchers are more in the former category
Yeah but people in the former category don’t matter much in terms of outcomes. Making a better sparse autoencoder won’t change the world at the margin, just like technocrats working to make soviet central planning better ultimately didn’t change the world because they were making incremental progress in the wrong direction.