The sample is biased in many ways: Because of the places where I recruited, interviews that didn’t work out because of timezone difference, people who responded too late, etc. I also started recruiting on Reddit and then dropped that in favour of Facebook.
So this should not be used as a representative sample, rather it’s an attempt to get a wide variety of arguments.
I did interview some people who are worried about alignment but don’t think current approaches are tractable. And quite a few people who are worried about alignment but don’t think it should get more resources.
Referring to my two basic questions listed at the top of the post, I had a lot of people say “yes” to (1). So they are worried about alignment. I originally planned to provide statistics on agreement / disagreement on questions 1⁄2 but it turned out that it’s not possible to make a clear distinction between the two questions—most people, when discussing (2) in detail, kept referring back to (1) in complex ways.
The sample is biased in many ways: Because of the places where I recruited, interviews that didn’t work out because of timezone difference, people who responded too late, etc. I also started recruiting on Reddit and then dropped that in favour of Facebook.
So this should not be used as a representative sample, rather it’s an attempt to get a wide variety of arguments.
I did interview some people who are worried about alignment but don’t think current approaches are tractable. And quite a few people who are worried about alignment but don’t think it should get more resources.
Referring to my two basic questions listed at the top of the post, I had a lot of people say “yes” to (1). So they are worried about alignment. I originally planned to provide statistics on agreement / disagreement on questions 1⁄2 but it turned out that it’s not possible to make a clear distinction between the two questions—most people, when discussing (2) in detail, kept referring back to (1) in complex ways.