but i contend that the main resource here is serial time rather than raw resources.
I’m very skeptical that this is currently the bottleneck for much of the safety work at OpenAI. Are you saying that both safety / alignment / interp all have sufficient headcount and everything is bottlenecked by serial time?
no, i’m saying serial time is more of a bottleneck for capabilities than raw resources. diverting 5% of parallel resources is much less costly for capabilities than slowing serial speed by 5%
I’m very skeptical that this is currently the bottleneck for much of the safety work at OpenAI. Are you saying that both safety / alignment / interp all have sufficient headcount and everything is bottlenecked by serial time?
no, i’m saying serial time is more of a bottleneck for capabilities than raw resources. diverting 5% of parallel resources is much less costly for capabilities than slowing serial speed by 5%