Are your referring to this comment from Eliezer Yudkowsky,
This is crunch time. This is crunch time for the entire human species. This is the hour before the final exam, we are trying to get as much studying done as possible, and it may be that you can’t make yourself feel that, for a decade, or 30 years on end or however long this crunch time lasts.
Sure. “Crunch time” is not exactly a technically precise term, and it is quite likely our time is measured in decades. The thing I want to ask is whether Buck expects the timeline will fully run out before we solve alignment, or whether we’ll manage to successfully build an AGI that helps us achieve our values and an existential win, or whether something different will happen instead.
Apologies, aren’t we already in crunch time?
Are your referring to this comment from Eliezer Yudkowsky,
Sure. “Crunch time” is not exactly a technically precise term, and it is quite likely our time is measured in decades. The thing I want to ask is whether Buck expects the timeline will fully run out before we solve alignment, or whether we’ll manage to successfully build an AGI that helps us achieve our values and an existential win, or whether something different will happen instead.
I see. I asked only because I was confused why you asked “before crunch time” rather than leaving that part out.