I feel like you are reacting to my comment in isolation, rather than as a response to a specific thing Will wrote. My comment is already significantly more concrete and less abstract than Will’s on the same topic.
When Will says ‘uncoordinated’, he clearly doesn’t mean ‘the OpenAI product team is not good at using Slack’, he means ‘competition between large groups’. Will’s key point is that marginally-saved worlds will be not very good; I am saying that the features that lead to danger here cause good things elsewhere, so marginally saved worlds might be very good. One of these features is competition-between-relevant-units. The ontological question of what the unit of competition is doesn’t seem particularly relevant to this—neither Will not I are disputing the importance of coordination within firms or individuals.
I feel like you are reacting to my comment in isolation, rather than as a response to a specific thing Will wrote. My comment is already significantly more concrete and less abstract than Will’s on the same topic.
When Will says ‘uncoordinated’, he clearly doesn’t mean ‘the OpenAI product team is not good at using Slack’, he means ‘competition between large groups’. Will’s key point is that marginally-saved worlds will be not very good; I am saying that the features that lead to danger here cause good things elsewhere, so marginally saved worlds might be very good. One of these features is competition-between-relevant-units. The ontological question of what the unit of competition is doesn’t seem particularly relevant to this—neither Will not I are disputing the importance of coordination within firms or individuals.
Fair point.