Comment by irinarish on Ethan Caballero on Broken Neural Scaling Laws, Deception, and Recursive Self Improvement · 2022-11-09T22:39:33.768Z · LW · GW

Well, I am Ethan's primary supervisor (since 2020), and really appreciate his provocative sense of humor (though not everyone does 😀) - regarding the BNSL paper though, it's 100% serious (though I did promise to double the $1B prize on Twitter; like advisor like student 😜)