Differential acceleration of alignment-relevant capabilities is a bad bet

There is an idea floating around in the rough shape of "we need to accelerate capabilities that are differentially useful for safety research so AIs can help us make the future go better." The capabilities targeted are typically things bottlenecking alignment research, such as philosophical or conceptual reasoning.I feel nervous about this for two reasons. The first is that it's plausible that AI safety and AI R&D are bottlenecked by many of the same factors: AIs have poor epistemics, are bad at...