I’d like to know what are your motivations for doing what you’re doing! In the first podcast you hinted at “weird reasons” but you didn’t say them explicitly in the end. I’m thinking about this quote:
Yeah, maybe a general question here is: I engage in recruiting sometimes and sometimes people are like, “So why should I work at Redwood Research, Buck?” And I’m like, “Well, I think it’s good for reducing AI takeover risk and perhaps making some other things go better.” And I feel a little weird about the fact that actually my motivation is in some sense a pretty weird other thing.
I’d like to know what are your motivations for doing what you’re doing! In the first podcast you hinted at “weird reasons” but you didn’t say them explicitly in the end. I’m thinking about this quote:
He’s talking about the stuff around the simulation hypothesis and acausal trade in the preceding section.
Sure but he hasn’t laid out the argument. “something something simulation acausal trade” isn’t a motivation.