Thank you for your work there. I’m curious about what made you resign, and also about why you’ve chosen now to communicate that?
(I expect that you are under some form of NDA, and that if you were willing and able to talk about why you resigned then you would have done so in your initial post. Therefore, for readers interested in some possibly related news: last month, Daniel Kokotajlo quit OpenAI’s Futures/Governance team “due to losing confidence that it [OpenAI] would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” and a Superalignment researcher was forced out of OpenAI in what may have been a political firing (source). OpenAI appears to be losing its most safety-conscious people.)
I’m not sure if your comment is an attempt to restate with examples some of what’s in the “What deep honesty is not” section, or if it’s you pointing out what you see as blind spots in the post. In case it’s the latter, here are some quotes from the post which cover similar ground: