Zac Hatfield Dobbs (an engineer at Anthropic) commented on 16 July 2021: “Now it looks like prosaic alignment might be the only kind we get, and the deadline might be very early indeed.”
Could you please note in the text that I wrote this, and later applied to and joined Anthropic? As-is I’m concerned that people might misinterpret the timing and affiliation.
Nonetheless, this concern did in fact motivate me to join Anthropic instead of finishing my PhD.
Hey, OK, fixed. Sorry there is no link to the comment—I had a link in an earlier draft but then it got lost. It was a comment somewhere on LessWrong and now I can’t find it -_-.
That’s interesting it motivated you to join Anthropic—you are definitely not alone in that. My understanding is Anthropic was founded by a bunch of people who were all worried about the possible implications of the scaling laws.
Could you please note in the text that I wrote this, and later applied to and joined Anthropic? As-is I’m concerned that people might misinterpret the timing and affiliation.
Nonetheless, this concern did in fact motivate me to join Anthropic instead of finishing my PhD.
My surname is “Hatfield-Dodds” :-)
Hey, OK, fixed. Sorry there is no link to the comment—I had a link in an earlier draft but then it got lost. It was a comment somewhere on LessWrong and now I can’t find it -_-.
That’s interesting it motivated you to join Anthropic—you are definitely not alone in that. My understanding is Anthropic was founded by a bunch of people who were all worried about the possible implications of the scaling laws.
No worries, here’s the comment.