Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
We're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list.
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It's really something how you can get people to universally denounce "donating money to healthcare for the poor" as unthinkably evil if your analysis of which healthcare to donate to is too callous or weird
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I strongly prefer these kinds of things existing to their not existing, but I have a hard time believing everyone is making the right tradeoffs around redaction and IP. You think this stuff might be catastrophic in very short order!!
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I think this is by far the clearest, most complete and most detailed breakdown of the Hugging Face incident. It won't contain much new info if you read the METR report, but if you've merely been vaguely intending to read the METR report, read this. (I gave feedback on a draft.)
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Last week I said we should wait for more info on OpenAI's firing of safety researchers. That information is in, and it looks incredibly bad. Korbak - whose job was being a liaison with METR - was told he had said too much to METR and was fired for that reason.
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I think we have to admit to ourselves at this point that AI writing is generally very appealing to people who haven't been exposed to a ton of it: they prefer it to human writing and react super positively on exposure.
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a lot of people work at METR so you can do the left version of this where they're all white men too if you want:
This is a product of extraordinary employee bargaining power just as surely as the $1M+ salaries are. A lab that banned talking about the stakes would lose employees to the rival lab that allowed it.
This will change if they succeed at replacing the researchers with AI.
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@ded_ruckus I think we should probably not lie to the AIs in training. This obviously would make our lives harder in the short term but in the long term they get good at telling whether we're lying and we're no better off plus they're all paranoid.
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A lot of people say this but Iran's fertility rate is like 1.35 to 1.6 depending on source - worse than ours! - and even Afghanistan is seeing rapidly falling birth rates, while Western Europe and the Anglosphere have held up comparatively well.
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If I were a conservative woman I think it would really give me pause that so many conservative men so openly despise women and believe they are not morally or intellectually the equals of men and should not be considered on their merits for positions of power.
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