I’d think very carefully before pursuing this. Sam is a very experienced political player and two quite senior EA’s just got outplayed. In many worlds, I expect our attempts backfire. Don’t pursue this unless you have good reason to believe that you can compete on his level. Otherwise, I’d suggest picking easier fights first.
Also, some of these don’t really seem like gentle pushback, but actually rather aggressive. Maybe we should be aggressive, but if so, we should own it.
They got outplayed in the context of the internal politics of OpenAI, where there were A LOT of people with profit (Microsoft) or career (the employees) incentives to race ahead. But there seems to be an emerging public consensus in favor of more regulation, so I would expect that e.g. smart, ambitious politicians have quite different incentives.
I’d think very carefully before pursuing this. Sam is a very experienced political player and two quite senior EA’s just got outplayed. In many worlds, I expect our attempts backfire. Don’t pursue this unless you have good reason to believe that you can compete on his level. Otherwise, I’d suggest picking easier fights first.
Also, some of these don’t really seem like gentle pushback, but actually rather aggressive. Maybe we should be aggressive, but if so, we should own it.
They got outplayed in the context of the internal politics of OpenAI, where there were A LOT of people with profit (Microsoft) or career (the employees) incentives to race ahead. But there seems to be an emerging public consensus in favor of more regulation, so I would expect that e.g. smart, ambitious politicians have quite different incentives.