I think the heuristic of “a difficult problem is best solved by having a very large number of people working on it” is not a particularly successful heuristic when predicting past successes in science, nor is it particularly successful if you are trying to forecast business success.
Interesting, can you give some examples of this that are analogous to solving the alignment problem?
As a separate point, it might still be worth getting many more people working on alignment ASAP to shift the Overton window. Some extremely talented mathematicians have worked together on cryptography projects for the US government, and I imagine something similar could happen for alignment in the future.
Interesting, can you give some examples of this that are analogous to solving the alignment problem?
As a separate point, it might still be worth getting many more people working on alignment ASAP to shift the Overton window. Some extremely talented mathematicians have worked together on cryptography projects for the US government, and I imagine something similar could happen for alignment in the future.