A basic case for accelerating conceptual reasoning capabilities

IntroductionIn this post, we make the case that alignment and other important work require especially strong conceptual reasoning capabilities. By this, we roughly mean tasks that are similar to philosophy in that they aren’t straightforwardly verifiable, and progress relies on informal a priori reasoning and argumentation. We argue that differentially accelerating AI’s conceptual reasoning capabilities is important.We also think it’s neglected, and that the AI safety community currently underin...