(Interestingly, I donāt recall the paper mentioning getting the term from computer security, and, skimming it again now, I indeed canāt see them mention that. In fact, they only seem to say ādefence in depthā once in the paper.
I wonder if they got the term from computer security and forgot theyād done so, if they got it from computer security but thought it wasnāt worth mentioning, or if the term has now become fairly common outside of computer security, but with the same basic meaning, rather than the somewhat different military meaning. Not really an important question, though.)
Iāve noticed something similar around āsecurity mindsetā: Eliezer and MIRI have used the phrase to talk about a specific version of it in relation to AI safety, but the term, as far as I know, originates with Bruce Schneier and computer security, although I canāt recall MIRI publications mentioning that much, possibly because they didnāt even realize thatās where the term came from. Hard to know, a probably not very relevant other than to weirdos like us. ;-)
The initial post by Eliezer on security mindset explicitly cites Bruce Schneier as the source of the term, and quotes extensively from this piece by Schneier.
Also related is the recent (very interesting) paper using that same term (linkpost).
(Interestingly, I donāt recall the paper mentioning getting the term from computer security, and, skimming it again now, I indeed canāt see them mention that. In fact, they only seem to say ādefence in depthā once in the paper.
I wonder if they got the term from computer security and forgot theyād done so, if they got it from computer security but thought it wasnāt worth mentioning, or if the term has now become fairly common outside of computer security, but with the same basic meaning, rather than the somewhat different military meaning. Not really an important question, though.)
Iāve noticed something similar around āsecurity mindsetā: Eliezer and MIRI have used the phrase to talk about a specific version of it in relation to AI safety, but the term, as far as I know, originates with Bruce Schneier and computer security, although I canāt recall MIRI publications mentioning that much, possibly because they didnāt even realize thatās where the term came from. Hard to know, a probably not very relevant other than to weirdos like us. ;-)
The initial post by Eliezer on security mindset explicitly cites Bruce Schneier as the source of the term, and quotes extensively from this piece by Schneier.