What is the research that would be most helpful for AI safety while still having value if it turns out not to be useful for safety research?
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@The_Lagrangian safety wrt what? threat models are important.
(who attacks? what is attacked? how can it be attacked?)
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safety as in value alignment for general artificial intelligence a la MIRI
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@The_Lagrangian I find it hard to talk about safety of the intransitive kind but maybe that's just my infosec background
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@The_Lagrangian do MIRI have a threat model or a justification for not having one?
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@The_Lagrangian btw this looks very similar to transitive/intransitive morals (morals towards a cause vs self-evident ones)