A very short version of this post, which seemed worth rattling of quickly for now.

A few months ago, I was talking to John about paradimicity in AI alignment. John says "we don't currently have a good paradigm." I asked "Is 'Natural Abstraction' a good paradigm?". He said "No, but I think it's something that's likely to output a paradigm that's closer to the right paradigm for AI Alignment."

"How many paradigms are we away from the right paradigm?"

"Like, I dunno, maybe 3?" said he.

Awhile later I saw John arguing on LessWrong with (I think?) Ryan Greenblatt about whether Ryan's current pseudo-paradigm was good. (Sorry if I got the names here or substance here wrong, I couldn't find the original thread, and it seemed slightly better to be specific so we could dig into a concrete example).

One distinction in the discussion seemed to be [...]

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First published:
January 25th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LgbDLdoHuS8EcaGxA/does-your-paradigm-beget-new-good-paradigms

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“‘Does your paradigm beget new, good, paradigms?’” by Raemon

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“‘Does your paradigm beget new, good, paradigms?’” by Raemon