I take your point here John. There’s a lot that’s still to come out about the events of the weekend, and I’ve probably been a bit trigger-happy with responses. I’m going to step back from this thread and possibly the Forum as a whole for a little bit.
I do want to note that I picked up a somewhat hostile/​adversarial tone to your comment (I’m not saying this was intentional). To ‘keep having to walk back claims’ seems a bit of an implied overclaim to me, especially as from my PoV it only happened twice—once seeing Ashlee Vance’s updated reporting, and the other with Joshua’s comment.
‘Walking back’ seems to also be more adversarial than just ‘corrected mistakes’ too (compare ‘you keep having to walk back claims’ vs ‘you made corrections twice’. In any case, while the reporting has changed, a lot of my intuitions and feelings haven’t shifted much. I still find the board’s complete silence strange, and think this could be a precarious moment for AI Safety.
I take your point here John. There’s a lot that’s still to come out about the events of the weekend, and I’ve probably been a bit trigger-happy with responses. I’m going to step back from this thread and possibly the Forum as a whole for a little bit.
I do want to note that I picked up a somewhat hostile/​adversarial tone to your comment (I’m not saying this was intentional). To ‘keep having to walk back claims’ seems a bit of an implied overclaim to me, especially as from my PoV it only happened twice—once seeing Ashlee Vance’s updated reporting, and the other with Joshua’s comment.
‘Walking back’ seems to also be more adversarial than just ‘corrected mistakes’ too (compare ‘you keep having to walk back claims’ vs ‘you made corrections twice’. In any case, while the reporting has changed, a lot of my intuitions and feelings haven’t shifted much. I still find the board’s complete silence strange, and think this could be a precarious moment for AI Safety.