I suggest editing the post by adding a tl;dr section to the top of the post. Or maybe change the title to something like Why “just make an agent which cares only about binary rewards” doesn’t work.
Reasoning: To me, the considerations in the post mostly read as rehashing standard arguments, which one should be familiar if they thought about the problem themselves, or went through AGI Safety Fundamentals, etc. It might be interesting to some people, but it would be good to have the clear indication that this isn’t novel.
Also: When I read the start of the post, I went “obviously this doesn’t work”. Then I spent several minutes reading the post to see where the flaw in your argument is, and point it out. Only to find that your conclusion is “yeah, this doesn’t help”. If you edit the post, you might save other people from wasting their time in a similar manner :-).
I suggest editing the post by adding a tl;dr section to the top of the post. Or maybe change the title to something like Why “just make an agent which cares only about binary rewards” doesn’t work.
Reasoning: To me, the considerations in the post mostly read as rehashing standard arguments, which one should be familiar if they thought about the problem themselves, or went through AGI Safety Fundamentals, etc. It might be interesting to some people, but it would be good to have the clear indication that this isn’t novel.
Also: When I read the start of the post, I went “obviously this doesn’t work”. Then I spent several minutes reading the post to see where the flaw in your argument is, and point it out. Only to find that your conclusion is “yeah, this doesn’t help”. If you edit the post, you might save other people from wasting their time in a similar manner :-).