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Ehh... feels like your base rate of 10% for LW users who are willing to pay for a subscription is too high, especially seeing how the 'free' version would still offer everything I (and presumably others) care about. Generalizing to other platforms, this feels closest to Twitter's situation with Twitter Blue, whose rates appear is far, far lower: if we be generous and say they have one million subscribers, then out of the 41.5 million monetizable daily active users they currently have, this would suggest a base rate of less than 3%.

Thanks for the writeup! 

Small nitpik: typo in "this indeed does not seem like an attitude that leads to go outcomes" 

I'm not sure if you've seen it or not, but here's a relevant clip where he mentions that they aren't training GPT-5. I don't quite know how to update from it. It doesn't seem likely that they paused from a desire to conduct more safety work, but I would also be surprised if somehow they are reaching some sort of performance limit from model size.

However, as Zvi mentions, Sam did say:

“I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models...We'll make them better in other ways”

The increased public attention towards AI Safety risk is probably a good thing. But, when stuff like this is getting lumped in with the rest of AI Safety, it feels like the public-facing slow-down-AI movement is going to be a grab-bag of AI Safety, AI Ethics, and AI... privacy(?). As such, I'm afraid that the public discourse will devolve into "Woah-there-Slow-AI" and "GOGOGOGO" tribal warfare; from the track record of American politics, this seems likely - maybe even inevitable? 

More importantly, though, what I'm afraid of is that this will translate into adversarial relations between AI Capabilities organizations and AI Safety orgs (more generally, that capabilities teams will become less inclined to incorporate safety concerns in their products). 

I'm not actually in an AI organization, so if someone is in one and has thoughts on this dynamic happening/not happening, I would love to hear.

Sheesh. Wild conversation. While I felt Lex was often missing the points Eliezer was saying, I'm glad he gave him the space and time to speak. Unfortunately, it felt like the conversation would keep moving towards reaching a super critical important insight that Eliezer wanted Lex to understand, and then Lex would just change the topic onto something else, and then Eliezer just had to begin building towards a new insight. Regardless, I appreciate that Lex and Eliezer thoroughly engaged with each other; this will probably spark good dialogue and get more people interested in the field. I'm glad it happened. 

For those who are time constrained and wondering what is in it: Lex and Eliezer basically cover a whole bunch of high-level points related to AI not-kill-everyone-ism, delving into various thought experiments and concepts which formulate Eliezer's worldview. Nothing super novel that you probably haven't heard of if you've been following the field for some time. 

Because you're imagining AGI keeping us in a box?

 

Yeah, something along the lines of this. Preserving humanity =/= humans living lives worth living.

I didn't upvote or downvote this post. Although I do find the spirit of this message interesting, I have a disturbing feeling that arguing to future AI to "preserve humanity for pascals-mugging-type-reasons" trades off X-risk for S-risk. I'm not sure that any of these aforementioned cases encourage AI to maintain lives worth living. I'm not confident that this meaningfully changes S-risk or X-risk positively or negatively, but I'm also not confident that it doesn't.

With the advent of Sydney and now this, I'm becoming more inclined to believe that AI Safety and policies related to it are very close to being in the overton window of most intellectuals (I wouldn't say the general public, yet). Like, maybe within a year, more than 60% of academic researchers will have heard of AI Safety. I don't feel confident whatsoever about the claim, but it now seems more than ~20% likely. Does this seem to be a reach?

There is a fuzzy line between "let's slow down AI capabilities" and "lets explicitly, adversarially, sabotage AI research". While I am all for the former, I don't support the latter; it creates worlds in which AI safety and capabilities groups are pitted head to head, and capabilities orgs explicitly become more incentivized to ignore safety proposals. These aren't worlds I personally wish to be in.

While I understand the motivation behind this message, I think the actions described in this post cross that fuzzy boundary, and pushes way too far towards that style of adversarial messaging

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