I agree that it occupies a spot on the layperson-understandability/rigor Pareto-frontier, but that frontier is large and the other things I mentioned are at other points.
Indeed. It just felt more grounded in reality to me than the other resources which may appeal more to us laypeople and the non laypeople prefer more speculative and abstract material.
Seconded/thirded on Human Compatible being near that frontier. I did find its ending ‘overly optimistic’ in the sense of framing it like ‘but lo, there is a solution!’ while other similar resources like Superintelligence and especially The Alignment Problem seem more nuanced in presenting uncertain proposals for paths forward not as oven-ready but preliminary and speculative.
I agree that it occupies a spot on the layperson-understandability/rigor Pareto-frontier, but that frontier is large and the other things I mentioned are at other points.
Indeed. It just felt more grounded in reality to me than the other resources which may appeal more to us laypeople and the non laypeople prefer more speculative and abstract material.
Seconded/thirded on Human Compatible being near that frontier. I did find its ending ‘overly optimistic’ in the sense of framing it like ‘but lo, there is a solution!’ while other similar resources like Superintelligence and especially The Alignment Problem seem more nuanced in presenting uncertain proposals for paths forward not as oven-ready but preliminary and speculative.