I think I agree with everything there; but I’m unsure what you mean exactly when you say “opposite direction”
I was arguing that our abilities for delegation should improve. If we had better accountability/transparency/reasoning-at-what-level-is-optimal, that would help improve our abilities to do delegation well.
I wasn’t arguing that we delegate more right now; but rather, that we should work on improving our abilities to delegate well, with the intention of delegating more later.
(I changed the title to try to make this more clear)
Yeah, I wasn’t really disagreeing, just pointing out that the way to get there seems to be to improve proof-of-alignment - which is not really accountability, since that’s used to talk about not cheating rather than “trying hard to do what they want”
I found the change in title confusing as there wasn’t really any discussion of how to actually improve our delegation abilities in the post, and more just encouragement to delegate more. You mentioned some ways in this comment (accountability, transparency...) but they’re not really unpacked in the main post. Would be interested in a discussion unpacking these and other ways.
I was trying to explain a framework; the resulting strategy is something like: 1. Improve delegation abilities 2. Delegate more in the future, accordingly.
You’re totally right I didn’t get into how to do this.
Do you (or others reading this) have ideas for what the post should have been called? It already was sort of long, I wasn’t sure about a good tradeoff (I tried a few variations, and didn’t really like any of them)
It’s too late to change now, but I can try to do better in the future
I think I agree with everything there; but I’m unsure what you mean exactly when you say “opposite direction”
I was arguing that our abilities for delegation should improve. If we had better accountability/transparency/reasoning-at-what-level-is-optimal, that would help improve our abilities to do delegation well.
I wasn’t arguing that we delegate more right now; but rather, that we should work on improving our abilities to delegate well, with the intention of delegating more later.
(I changed the title to try to make this more clear)
Yeah, I wasn’t really disagreeing, just pointing out that the way to get there seems to be to improve proof-of-alignment - which is not really accountability, since that’s used to talk about not cheating rather than “trying hard to do what they want”
I found the change in title confusing as there wasn’t really any discussion of how to actually improve our delegation abilities in the post, and more just encouragement to delegate more. You mentioned some ways in this comment (accountability, transparency...) but they’re not really unpacked in the main post. Would be interested in a discussion unpacking these and other ways.
Noted, thanks!
I was trying to explain a framework; the resulting strategy is something like:
1. Improve delegation abilities
2. Delegate more in the future, accordingly.
You’re totally right I didn’t get into how to do this.
Do you (or others reading this) have ideas for what the post should have been called? It already was sort of long, I wasn’t sure about a good tradeoff (I tried a few variations, and didn’t really like any of them)
It’s too late to change now, but I can try to do better in the future