I'm delighted I read the post in the curated newsletter without noticing who was the author and only then decided to head here to upvote it. I wonder if moving the authorship information to the end of the newsletter influences the reader's willingness to upvote the post – perhaps an opportunity for an A/B test?
Indeed.
I'd really like to see Eliezer engage with this comment, because to me it looks like the following sentence's well-foundedness is rightly being questioned.
While I generally agree that powerful optimizers are dangerous, the fact that the GPT task and the "being an actual human" task are somewhat different has nothing to do with it.