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**In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley** 2023-12-06T02:02:32.004Z
In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post) 2023-12-05T18:40:19.740Z

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Comment by mrtreasure on MakoYass's Shortform · 2024-12-17T17:56:42.845Z · LW · GW

He also said interpretability has been solved, so he's not the most calibrated when it comes to truthseeking. Similarly, his story here could be wildly exaggerated and not the full truth.

Comment by mrtreasure on Bogdan Ionut Cirstea's Shortform · 2024-11-28T00:38:37.794Z · LW · GW

There have been comments from OAI staff that o1 is "GPT-2 level" so I wonder if it's a similar size?

Comment by mrtreasure on Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk · 2024-08-15T21:06:58.626Z · LW · GW

It would be interesting to see which arguments the public and policymakers find most and least concerning.

Comment by mrtreasure on The Leopold Model: Analysis and Reactions · 2024-06-17T16:12:12.985Z · LW · GW

So I generally think this type of incentive affecting people's views is important to consider. Though I wonder, couldn't you make counter arguments along the lines of "oh well if they're really so great why don't you try to sell them and make money? Because they're not great." And "If you really believed this was important, you would bet proportional amounts of money on it."

Comment by mrtreasure on AI Risk and the US Presidential Candidates · 2024-01-06T22:45:19.103Z · LW · GW

Trump said he would cancel the executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI on day 1 if reelected. Seems negative considering it creates more uncertainty around how consistent any AI regulation will be and he has no alternative. 

Comment by mrtreasure on **In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley** · 2023-12-08T05:08:39.372Z · LW · GW

I'm not sure what you mean. The main things would have been removing him from the board and replacing him as CEO, which they did. 

But the board wasn't able to control whether a new company backed by Microsoft threatened to scoop up all the employees. So they negotiated Altman's return as CEO but not the board since that seemed worse. 

Maybe paying closer attention to the CEO from the start and doing something earlier, or limiting or preventing commercialization and not having employee equity that would be at risk if the CEO changed might have been able to create a different outcome. 

Comment by mrtreasure on In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post) · 2023-12-06T01:57:34.509Z · LW · GW

Seems good; will repost.