Seems like bad behaviour from Altman (though not terribly surprising).
I doubt I’ll comment much on this publicly because I doubt I have much to add. I think there is a risk of overextension here—this seems like dumb/bad behaviour but isn’t as harmful as the NDA stuff. I think it would be easy to stop being focused on “are OpenAI being good stewards of AI?” to “we sneer whenever altman makes a mistake”. I think that would be a bad transition.
Whenever Sam Altman behaves like an unprincipled sociopath, yet again, we should update, yet again, in the direction of believing that Sam Altman might be an unprincipled sociopath, who should not be permitted to develop the world’s most dangerous technology (AGI).
Seems like bad behaviour from Altman (though not terribly surprising).
I doubt I’ll comment much on this publicly because I doubt I have much to add. I think there is a risk of overextension here—this seems like dumb/bad behaviour but isn’t as harmful as the NDA stuff. I think it would be easy to stop being focused on “are OpenAI being good stewards of AI?” to “we sneer whenever altman makes a mistake”. I think that would be a bad transition.
My take is this:
Whenever Sam Altman behaves like an unprincipled sociopath, yet again, we should update, yet again, in the direction of believing that Sam Altman might be an unprincipled sociopath, who should not be permitted to develop the world’s most dangerous technology (AGI).
If accurate, it’s useful info about Altman’s character.