If I had to guess, the EA community is probably a bit worse at this than most communities because A) bad social skills and B) high trust.
This seems like a good tradeoff in general. I don’t think we should be putting more emphasis on smooth-talking CEOs—which is what got us into the OpenAI mess in the first place.
But at some point, defending Sam Altman is just charlie_brown_football.jpg
If I had to guess, the EA community is probably a bit worse at this than most communities because A) bad social skills and B) high trust.
This seems like a good tradeoff in general. I don’t think we should be putting more emphasis on smooth-talking CEOs—which is what got us into the OpenAI mess in the first place.
But at some point, defending Sam Altman is just charlie_brown_football.jpg