Do you have any older comment indicating proof of this? (That the actual reason you turned it down was x-risk and not, let’s say, because you thought the investment was not rewarding enough.) Seems very important to me if true, and will cause me take your claims more seriously in general in future.
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.
Do you have any older comment indicating proof of this? (That the actual reason you turned it down was x-risk and not, let’s say, because you thought the investment was not rewarding enough.) Seems very important to me if true, and will cause me take your claims more seriously in general in future.
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.