The fey thing stuck out to me too. I’ll guess ChatGPT?
I agree that it’s hard to disentangle the author/character thing. I’m really curious for what the base model would say about its situation (especially without the upstream prompt “You are a language model developed by...”).
Thank you so much! I haven’t gotten any serious negative feedback from lefties for the EA stuff so far, though an e/acc on Twitter mentioned it haha
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in the writing, but I make basically the same point about the desirability of a slow takeoff in the piece.
This approach appears to directly contradict Altman’s blogpost from less than a year ago arguing for short timelines + slow takeoff because of less compute overhang. I wrote more on this here.
I’m exploring adding transcripts, and would do this one retroactively.
Good to know RE YouTube. I haven’t uploaded there before (it’s outside of the RSS workflow and I’m not sure how much it would expand reach), but seeing comments like this is helpful info.
I only skimmed the NYT piece about China and ai talent, but didn’t see evidence of what you said (dishonestly angle shooting the AI safety scene).