1) Huh, that hasn’t been my experience. We have a number of potential donors who ring us up and ask who in AI alignment needs money the most at the moment. (In fact, last year, we directed a number of donors to FHI, who had much more of a funding gap than MIRI did at that time.)
2) If MIRI disappeared and everything else was held constant, then I’d be pretty concerned about the lack of people focused on the object level problems. (All talk more about why I think this is so important in a little bit, I’m pretty sure at least one other person asks that question more directly.) There’d still be a few people working on the object level problems (Stuart Russell, Stuart Armstrong), but I’d want lots more. In fact, that statement is also true in the actual world! We only have three people on the research team right now, remember, with a fourth joining in August.
In other words, if you were to find yourself in a world like this one except without a MIRI, then I would strongly suggest building something like a MIRI :-)
1) Huh, that hasn’t been my experience. We have a number of potential donors who ring us up and ask who in AI alignment needs money the most at the moment. (In fact, last year, we directed a number of donors to FHI, who had much more of a funding gap than MIRI did at that time.)
2) If MIRI disappeared and everything else was held constant, then I’d be pretty concerned about the lack of people focused on the object level problems. (All talk more about why I think this is so important in a little bit, I’m pretty sure at least one other person asks that question more directly.) There’d still be a few people working on the object level problems (Stuart Russell, Stuart Armstrong), but I’d want lots more. In fact, that statement is also true in the actual world! We only have three people on the research team right now, remember, with a fourth joining in August.
In other words, if you were to find yourself in a world like this one except without a MIRI, then I would strongly suggest building something like a MIRI :-)