Instead they should review arguments others have made and judge them, as you do in the Arete Fellowship
IMO there’s a difference between evaluating arguments to the best of your ability and just deferring to the consensus around you. I think most people probably shouldn’t spend lots of time doing cause prio from scratch, but I do think most people should judge the existing cause prio literature on object level and judge them from the best of the ability.
My read of the sentence indicated that there was too much deferring and not enough thinking through the arguments oneself.
IMO there’s a difference between evaluating arguments to the best of your ability and just deferring to the consensus around you.
Of course. I just think evaluating and deferring can look quite similar (and a mix of the two is usually taking place).
OP seems to believe students are deferring because of other frustrations. As many have quoted: “If after Arete, someone without background in AI decides that AI safety is the most important issue, then something likely has gone wrong”.
I’ve attended Arete seminars at Ivy League universities and seen what looked liked fairly sophisticated evaluation to me.
IMO there’s a difference between evaluating arguments to the best of your ability and just deferring to the consensus around you. I think most people probably shouldn’t spend lots of time doing cause prio from scratch, but I do think most people should judge the existing cause prio literature on object level and judge them from the best of the ability.
My read of the sentence indicated that there was too much deferring and not enough thinking through the arguments oneself.
Of course. I just think evaluating and deferring can look quite similar (and a mix of the two is usually taking place).
OP seems to believe students are deferring because of other frustrations. As many have quoted: “If after Arete, someone without background in AI decides that AI safety is the most important issue, then something likely has gone wrong”.
I’ve attended Arete seminars at Ivy League universities and seen what looked liked fairly sophisticated evaluation to me.