He wasn’t designated “main person who writes stuff down” by a cabal of AI safety elders. He’s not personally responsible for the fate of the world—he just happens to be the only person who consistently writes cogent things down. If you want you can go ahead and devote your life to AI safety, start doing the work he does as effectively and realistically as he does it, and then you’ll eventually be designated Movement Leader and have the opportunity to be whined at. He was pretty explicitly clear in the post that he does not want to be this and that he spent the last fifteen years trying to find someone else who can do what he does.
I largely agree with you, but until this post I had never realized that this wasn’t a role Eliezer wanted. If I went into AI Risk work, I would have focused on other things—my natural inclination is to look at what work isn’t getting done, and to do that.
If this post wasn’t surprising to you, I’m curious where you had previously seen him communicate this?
If this post was surprising to you, then hopefully you can agree with me that it’s worth signal boosting that he wants to be replaced?
He wasn’t designated “main person who writes stuff down” by a cabal of AI safety elders. He’s not personally responsible for the fate of the world—he just happens to be the only person who consistently writes cogent things down. If you want you can go ahead and devote your life to AI safety, start doing the work he does as effectively and realistically as he does it, and then you’ll eventually be designated Movement Leader and have the opportunity to be whined at. He was pretty explicitly clear in the post that he does not want to be this and that he spent the last fifteen years trying to find someone else who can do what he does.
I largely agree with you, but until this post I had never realized that this wasn’t a role Eliezer wanted. If I went into AI Risk work, I would have focused on other things—my natural inclination is to look at what work isn’t getting done, and to do that.
If this post wasn’t surprising to you, I’m curious where you had previously seen him communicate this?
If this post was surprising to you, then hopefully you can agree with me that it’s worth signal boosting that he wants to be replaced?