I apologise if this is just rank incompetence/inattention on my part as a forum reader, but I actually can’t find anything mentioning 1. or 2. in your comments on this thread, although I did see your note about 3. (I’ve done control-F for all the comments by “80000_Hours” and mentions of “Paul Christiano”, “Ajeya Cotra”, “Keiran”, and “Rob”. If I’ve missed them, and you provide a (digestible) hat, I will take a bite.)
In any case, the new structure seems pretty good to me - one series that deals with the ideas more or less in the abstract, another that gets into the object-level issues. I think that addresses my concerns but I don’t know exactly what you’re suggesting; I’d be interested to know exactly what the new list would be.
More generally, I’d be very happy to give you feedback on things (I’m not sure how to make this statement more precise, sorry). I would far prefer to be consulted in advance than feel I had to moan about it on the forum after the fact- this would also avoid conveying the misleading impression I don’t think you do a lot of excellent work, which I do think. But obviously, it’s up to you whose and how much input you solicit.
Hello Rob and Keiran,
I apologise if this is just rank incompetence/inattention on my part as a forum reader, but I actually can’t find anything mentioning 1. or 2. in your comments on this thread, although I did see your note about 3. (I’ve done control-F for all the comments by “80000_Hours” and mentions of “Paul Christiano”, “Ajeya Cotra”, “Keiran”, and “Rob”. If I’ve missed them, and you provide a (digestible) hat, I will take a bite.)
In any case, the new structure seems pretty good to me - one series that deals with the ideas more or less in the abstract, another that gets into the object-level issues. I think that addresses my concerns but I don’t know exactly what you’re suggesting; I’d be interested to know exactly what the new list would be.
More generally, I’d be very happy to give you feedback on things (I’m not sure how to make this statement more precise, sorry). I would far prefer to be consulted in advance than feel I had to moan about it on the forum after the fact- this would also avoid conveying the misleading impression I don’t think you do a lot of excellent work, which I do think. But obviously, it’s up to you whose and how much input you solicit.