I think something pretty close to this is true, and I’m worried about it. (I don’t know that I buy Sam’s implied background story in that tweet, but, I do think OpenAI is at least somewhat downstream of Superintelligence being published). I also have a recollection of Shane Legg from DeepMind being influenced by early Lesswrong, although I don’t remember the details
I’m a bit confused about how to think about the current-day situation (i.e. I agree with DirectedEvolution there is just a lot of profit motive now), but I think it’s been at least a relevant gear historically.
I think something pretty close to this is true, and I’m worried about it. (I don’t know that I buy Sam’s implied background story in that tweet, but, I do think OpenAI is at least somewhat downstream of Superintelligence being published). I also have a recollection of Shane Legg from DeepMind being influenced by early Lesswrong, although I don’t remember the details
I’m a bit confused about how to think about the current-day situation (i.e. I agree with DirectedEvolution there is just a lot of profit motive now), but I think it’s been at least a relevant gear historically.
He was a commenter Overcoming Bias as @Shane_Legg, received a monetary prize from SIAI for his work, commented on SIAI’s strategy on his blog, and took part in the 2010 Singularity Summit, where he and Hassabis would be introduced to Thiel as the first major VC funder of DeepMind (as recounted by both Altman in the tweet mentioned in OP, and in IABIED). I’m not sure this is “being influenced by early Lesswrong” as much as originating in the same memetic milieu – Shane Legg was the one who popularized the term “AGI” and wrote papers like this with Hutter, for example.