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It feels to me like lots of alignment folk ~only make negative updates. For example, "Bing Chat is evidence of misalignment", but also "ChatGPT is not evidence of alignment." (I don't know that there is in fact a single person who believes both, but my straw-models of a few people believe both.)
A lot of the people around me (e.g. who I speak to ~weekly) seem to be sensitive to both new news and new insights, adapting both their priorities and their level of optimism[1]. I think you're right about some people. I don't know what 'lots of alignment folk' means, and I've not considered the topic of other-people's-update-rates-and-biases much.
For me, most changes route via governance.
I have made mainly very positive updates on governance in the last ~year, in part from public things and in part from private interactions.
(Updating a bit because of these responses -- thanks, everyone, for responding! I still believe the first sentence, albeit a tad less strongly.)
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I did not update towards misalignment at all on bing chat. I also do not think chatgpt is (strong) evidence of alignment. I generally think anyone who already takes alignment as a serious concern at all should not update on bing chat, except perhaps in the department of "do things like bing chat, which do not actually provide evidence for misalignment, cause shifts in public opinion?"