Thanks! I only know a handful of people in this category, but for what it’s worth, it again feels like people who were predisposed to thinking that working on pretraining would be okay rather than them being “corrupted.”
E.g., I recently talked to someone who told me that their main takeaway from a safety fellowship was realizing that they didn’t fit in because they actually weren’t worried about existential risk in the same way that the other attendees were.
I think he would include a lot of people who work at Anthropic, for example, on pre-training, some of whom went through MATS or something.
Thanks! I only know a handful of people in this category, but for what it’s worth, it again feels like people who were predisposed to thinking that working on pretraining would be okay rather than them being “corrupted.”
E.g., I recently talked to someone who told me that their main takeaway from a safety fellowship was realizing that they didn’t fit in because they actually weren’t worried about existential risk in the same way that the other attendees were.