Chris Painter
@ChrisPainterYup
president @METR_Evals, evals accelerationist, working hard on AGI preparedness
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I think people in tech, including employees, are still too weird about, deferential to, awestruck by, CEOs and co-founders of important companies.
I think you’ll get a better picture of reality by modeling them not as “great people of history”, but more like “Your smart but fallible acquaintance who is very busy, was a bit prescient/‘early’ to their area, and suddenly making big decisions they deep down feel they’re kind of unprepared for but clearly the only person in a position to make”
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