Oh yep, I forgot about the interp updates and other informal posts from GDM researchers—these seem to occupy the same niche I was thinking the blog could have. The idea seemed worth suggesting, for the simple reason that Anthropic and OpenAI had both done it, but in retrospect I buy your argument that the main benefit of a blog is to the company rather than the readers, and I retract my suggestion.
My impression with the Medium blog is based pretty much entirely on the one paper I was involved with (MONA), where I remember hearing something like “we’re going to write a separate Medium post and a LessWrong post, and the Medium post will assume (relatively) less knowledge of the field.” I’m not sure if my impression was correct, or if things have changed since then.
Ah yeah, I think with that one the audiences were “researchers heavily involved in AGI Safety” (LessWrong) and “ML researchers with some interest in reward hacking / safety” (Medium blog)
Oh yep, I forgot about the interp updates and other informal posts from GDM researchers—these seem to occupy the same niche I was thinking the blog could have. The idea seemed worth suggesting, for the simple reason that Anthropic and OpenAI had both done it, but in retrospect I buy your argument that the main benefit of a blog is to the company rather than the readers, and I retract my suggestion.
My impression with the Medium blog is based pretty much entirely on the one paper I was involved with (MONA), where I remember hearing something like “we’re going to write a separate Medium post and a LessWrong post, and the Medium post will assume (relatively) less knowledge of the field.” I’m not sure if my impression was correct, or if things have changed since then.
Ah yeah, I think with that one the audiences were “researchers heavily involved in AGI Safety” (LessWrong) and “ML researchers with some interest in reward hacking / safety” (Medium blog)