Hmm, OK. Back when I met Ilya, about 2018, he was radiating excitement that his next idea would create AGI, and didn’t seem sensitive to safety worries. I also thought it was “common knowledge” that his interest in safety increased substantially between 2018-22, and that’s why I was unsurprised to see him in charge of superalignment.
Re Elon-Zillis, all I’m saying is that it looked to Sam like the seat would belong to someone loyal to him at the time the seat was created.
You may well be right about D’Angelo and the others.
Hm, maybe it was common knowledge in some areas? I just always took him for being concerned. There’s not really any contradiction between being excited about your short-term work and worried about long-term risks. Fooling yourself about your current idea is an important skill for a researcher. (You ever hear the joke about Geoff Hinton? He suddenly solves how the brain works, at long last, and euphorically tells his daughter; she replies: “Oh Dad—not again!”)
Hmm, OK. Back when I met Ilya, about 2018, he was radiating excitement that his next idea would create AGI, and didn’t seem sensitive to safety worries. I also thought it was “common knowledge” that his interest in safety increased substantially between 2018-22, and that’s why I was unsurprised to see him in charge of superalignment.
Re Elon-Zillis, all I’m saying is that it looked to Sam like the seat would belong to someone loyal to him at the time the seat was created.
You may well be right about D’Angelo and the others.
Hm, maybe it was common knowledge in some areas? I just always took him for being concerned. There’s not really any contradiction between being excited about your short-term work and worried about long-term risks. Fooling yourself about your current idea is an important skill for a researcher. (You ever hear the joke about Geoff Hinton? He suddenly solves how the brain works, at long last, and euphorically tells his daughter; she replies: “Oh Dad—not again!”)