UI and complementary technologies: I’m sort of confused about your claim about comparative advantage. Are you saying that there aren’t people in this community whose comparative advantage might be designing UI? That would seem surprising.
More broadly, though:
I’m not sure how much “we can just outsource this” really cuts against the core of our argument (how to get something done is a question of tactics, and it could still be a strategic priority even if we just wanted to spend a lot of money on it)
I guess I feel, though, that you’re saying this won’t be a big bottleneck
I think that that may be true if you’re considering automated alignment research in particular. But I’m not on board with that being the clear priority here
Yes, I suppose I am trying to divide tasks/projects up into two buckets based on whether they require high context and value-alignment and strategic thinking and EA-ness. And I think my claim was/is that UI design is comparatively easy to outsource to someone without much of the relevant context and values. And therefore the comparative advantage of the higher-context people is to do things that are harder to outsource to lower-context people. But I know ~nothing about UI design, maybe being higher context is actually super useful.
UI and complementary technologies: I’m sort of confused about your claim about comparative advantage. Are you saying that there aren’t people in this community whose comparative advantage might be designing UI? That would seem surprising.
More broadly, though:
I’m not sure how much “we can just outsource this” really cuts against the core of our argument (how to get something done is a question of tactics, and it could still be a strategic priority even if we just wanted to spend a lot of money on it)
I guess I feel, though, that you’re saying this won’t be a big bottleneck
I think that that may be true if you’re considering automated alignment research in particular. But I’m not on board with that being the clear priority here
Yes, I suppose I am trying to divide tasks/projects up into two buckets based on whether they require high context and value-alignment and strategic thinking and EA-ness. And I think my claim was/is that UI design is comparatively easy to outsource to someone without much of the relevant context and values. And therefore the comparative advantage of the higher-context people is to do things that are harder to outsource to lower-context people. But I know ~nothing about UI design, maybe being higher context is actually super useful.