Leopold himself also IMO seems to me like a kind of low-integrity dude and Shulman lending his skills and credibility to empowering him seems pretty bad for the world (I don’t have this take confidently, but that’s where a lot of my negative reaction came from).
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.
Leopold himself also IMO seems to me like a kind of low-integrity dude and Shulman lending his skills and credibility to empowering him seems pretty bad for the world (I don’t have this take confidently, but that’s where a lot of my negative reaction came from).
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.