I’m not confident that this is fully outside the scope of RP, but I think backchaining-in-practice is plausibly underrated by EA/longtermism, despite a lot of chatter about it in theory.
By backchaining in practice I mean tracing backwards fully from the world we want (eg a just, kind, safe world capable of long reflection), to specific efforts and actions individuals and small groups can do, in AI safety, biosecurity, animal welfare, movement building, etc.
Specific things that I think will be difficult to be under RP’s purview include things that require specific AI Safety or biosecurity stories, though those things plausibly have information hazards so I’d encourage people who are doing these extensive diagrams to be a) somewhat careful about information security and b) talk to the relevant people within EA (eg FHI) before creating and certainly before publishing them.
An obvious caveat here is that it’s possible many such backchaining documents exist and I am unaware of them. Another caveat is that maybe backchaining is just dumb, for various epistemic reasons.
I’m not confident that this is fully outside the scope of RP, but I think backchaining-in-practice is plausibly underrated by EA/longtermism, despite a lot of chatter about it in theory.
By backchaining in practice I mean tracing backwards fully from the world we want (eg a just, kind, safe world capable of long reflection), to specific efforts and actions individuals and small groups can do, in AI safety, biosecurity, animal welfare, movement building, etc.
Specific things that I think will be difficult to be under RP’s purview include things that require specific AI Safety or biosecurity stories, though those things plausibly have information hazards so I’d encourage people who are doing these extensive diagrams to be a) somewhat careful about information security and b) talk to the relevant people within EA (eg FHI) before creating and certainly before publishing them.
An obvious caveat here is that it’s possible many such backchaining documents exist and I am unaware of them. Another caveat is that maybe backchaining is just dumb, for various epistemic reasons.