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Finished. It’s a good overview, in fact. The field has dramatically matured and improved in the past few years, btw. The stupid stuff that dominated LW 3+ years ago is discredited. There’s now much that’s plausible and interesting. Surprised!
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Any particular line of research you found particularly promising? I have a strong intuition that the whole enterprise is misconceived, but there are many smart people who think otherwise, so I'm probably wrong.
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Yes, I mostly agree with this, and my write-up will say so. On the whole, the field has concluded that “alignment” is infeasible (although a holy grail still worth putting some effort into), and doing sensible, fairly obvious things is a better bet (but comes with no guarantees).
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lol this reminds me of my impression of recent crypto-adjacent stuff I've seen
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confession: I'm kind of intrigued by the parts of the blockchain/crypto/web3 sphere that seem to have largely ditched the actual blockchain/crypto part and are using the vague web3 concepts as an excuse to get funding for 00s-style Good Old Fashioned Architecture Astronomy
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