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The “I Already Get It” Slide

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Jessica Taylor recently wrote a description of Paul Christiano’s and MIRI’s differing driving intuitions for thinking about the AI alignment problem. Jacob Steinhardt observes that the “do cognitive reductions” intuition seems to be at the heart of MIRI’s thought and the “search for solutions and fundamental obstructions” intuition at the heart of Paul’s thought. As I read his comment, I noticed myself make an error I’ve made before: thinking I get the intuitions by mere virtue of not thinking they’re crazy. I call this The “I Already Get It” Slide, and I suspect this error happens to people all the time but passes unnoticed. This is unfortunate because the error prevents you from actually absorbing other’s intutions, and absorbing other’s intuitions is important for doing anything hard. Jessica describes Search For Solutions And Fundamental Obstructions like this: Almost all technical problems are either tractable to solve or are intractable/impossible for a good reason. […] If the pr

John Salvatier The “I Already Get It” Slide 31 Jan 2017 Followup to : Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles , Guessing The Teacher’s Password Jessica Taylor recently wrote a description of Paul Christiano’s and MIRI’s differing driving intuitions for thinking about the AI alignment problem . Jacob Steinhardt observes that the “do cognitive reductions” intuition seems to be at the heart of MIRI’s thought and the “search for solutions and fundamental obstructions” intuition at the heart of Paul’s thought. As I read his comment, I noticed myself make an error I’ve made before: thinking I get the int

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