It also seems like you’re mostly critiquing the tractability of the claim and not the underlying scale nor neglectedness?
Yep, everyone agrees it’s neglected. My strongest critique is the tractability, which may be so low as to discount astronomical value. I do take a lot of issue with the scale as well though. I think that needs to be argued for rather than assumed. I also think trade-offs from other causes need to be taken into account at some point too.
And again, I don’t think there’s no arguments that can make traction on the scale/tractability that can make AI Welfare look like a valuable cause, but these arguments clearly weren’t made (imho) in AWDW
Yep, everyone agrees it’s neglected. My strongest critique is the tractability, which may be so low as to discount astronomical value. I do take a lot of issue with the scale as well though. I think that needs to be argued for rather than assumed. I also think trade-offs from other causes need to be taken into account at some point too.
And again, I don’t think there’s no arguments that can make traction on the scale/tractability that can make AI Welfare look like a valuable cause, but these arguments clearly weren’t made (imho) in AWDW