While, showing the other point of view and all that is a reasonable practice, it’s disappointing of Dwarkesh to use his platform specifically to promote this anti-safety start-up.
I think it’s a little more concerning that Dwarkesh has invested in this startup:
Mechanize is backed by investments from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Dwarkesh Patel, Jeff Dean, Sholto Douglas, and Marcus Abramovitch.
And I do not see any disclosure of this in either the Youtube description or the Substack transcript at present.
Might Leopold Aschenbrenner also be involved? He runs an investment fund with money from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Patrick Collison, so the investment in Mechanize might have come from that?
While, showing the other point of view and all that is a reasonable practice, it’s disappointing of Dwarkesh to use his platform specifically to promote this anti-safety start-up.
I think it’s a little more concerning that Dwarkesh has invested in this startup:
And I do not see any disclosure of this in either the Youtube description or the Substack transcript at present.
EDIT: a disclosure has been added to both
Might Leopold Aschenbrenner also be involved? He runs an investment fund with money from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Patrick Collison, so the investment in Mechanize might have come from that?
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