Situational awareness did seem like it was basically trying to stoke a race, seemed to me like it was incompatible with other things he had told me and I had heard about his beliefs from others, and then he did go on and leverage that thing of all things into an investment fund which does seem like it would straightforwardly hasten the end. Like, my honest guess is that he did write Situational Awareness largely to become more powerful in the world, not to help it orient, and turning it into a hedge fund was a bunch of evidence in that direction.
Also some other interactions I’ve had with him where he made a bunch of social slap-down motions towards people taking AGI or AGI-risk seriously in ways that seemed very power-play optimized.
I also had a negative reaction to the race-stoking and so forth, but also, I feel like you might be judging him too harshly from that evidence? Consider for example that Leopold, like me, was faced with a choice between signing the NDA and getting a huge amount of money, and like me, he chose the freedom to speak. A lot of people give me a lot of credit for that and I think they should give Leopold a similar amount of credit.
What gives you the impression of low integrity?
Situational awareness did seem like it was basically trying to stoke a race, seemed to me like it was incompatible with other things he had told me and I had heard about his beliefs from others, and then he did go on and leverage that thing of all things into an investment fund which does seem like it would straightforwardly hasten the end. Like, my honest guess is that he did write Situational Awareness largely to become more powerful in the world, not to help it orient, and turning it into a hedge fund was a bunch of evidence in that direction.
Also some other interactions I’ve had with him where he made a bunch of social slap-down motions towards people taking AGI or AGI-risk seriously in ways that seemed very power-play optimized.
Again, none of this is a confident take.
I also had a negative reaction to the race-stoking and so forth, but also, I feel like you might be judging him too harshly from that evidence? Consider for example that Leopold, like me, was faced with a choice between signing the NDA and getting a huge amount of money, and like me, he chose the freedom to speak. A lot of people give me a lot of credit for that and I think they should give Leopold a similar amount of credit.