I think this 2023 comment is the earliest instance of me talking about turning down investing in Anthropic due to x-risk. If you’re wondering why I didn’t talk about it even earlier, it’s because I formed my impression of Dario Amodei’s safety views from a private Google Doc of his (The Big Blob of Compute, which he has subsequently talked about in various public interviews), and it seemed like bad etiquette to then discuss those views in public. By 2023 I felt like it was ok to talk about since the document had become a historical curiosity and there was plenty of public info available about Anthropic’s safety views from other sources. But IIRC, “The Big Blob of Compute” was one of the main triggers for me writing Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs? in 2019.
I think this 2023 comment is the earliest instance of me talking about turning down investing in Anthropic due to x-risk. If you’re wondering why I didn’t talk about it even earlier, it’s because I formed my impression of Dario Amodei’s safety views from a private Google Doc of his (The Big Blob of Compute, which he has subsequently talked about in various public interviews), and it seemed like bad etiquette to then discuss those views in public. By 2023 I felt like it was ok to talk about since the document had become a historical curiosity and there was plenty of public info available about Anthropic’s safety views from other sources. But IIRC, “The Big Blob of Compute” was one of the main triggers for me writing Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs? in 2019.