What are the strategic reasons for prioritizing work on intermediate difficulty problems and "easy safety techniques" at this time?
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Doesn't this part of the comment answer your question?
It sounds like they think it's easier to make progress on research that will help in scenarios where alignment ends up being not that hard. And so they're focusing there because it seems to be highest EV.
Seems reasonable to me. (Though noting that the full EV analysis would have to take into account how neglected different kinds of research are, and many other factors as well.)
I believe this in some domains applies to micro-mobility in general.