Ah ok here’s something that’s implicit, that I can now make explicit: IF you’re taking big actions (e.g. Anthropic doing frontier AGI research) AND your justifications for doing that rely on a quite unclear claim X, THEN you should have reasoned out X pretty well and defend it publicly OR ELSE you probably are deceiving yourself and/or others about why you’re doing what you’re doing. (There’s plenty of exceptions, but still.)
Ah ok here’s something that’s implicit, that I can now make explicit: IF you’re taking big actions (e.g. Anthropic doing frontier AGI research) AND your justifications for doing that rely on a quite unclear claim X, THEN you should have reasoned out X pretty well and defend it publicly OR ELSE you probably are deceiving yourself and/or others about why you’re doing what you’re doing. (There’s plenty of exceptions, but still.)