The gap between Before and After is the gap between “you can observe your failures and learn from them” and “failure kills the observer”. Continuous motion between those points does not change the need to generalize across them.
It is amazing how much of an antimeme this is (to some audiences). I do not know any way of saying this sentence that causes people to see the distributional shift I’m pointing to, rather than mapping it onto some completely other idea about hard takeoffs, or unipolarity, or whatever.
Fair enough, but it was done with Anthropic’s heavy and active cooperation to provide facilities not usually available to outside researchers, unless I’m mistaken about that too?