Nathan Labenz: belief

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…Mm-hmm. Things along those lines that are part idea but, you know, definitely need, like, a serious technical implementation. There was, I think, a lot of, lot more hope that under a Biden/Harris or, you know, any Democratic administration, that there would be some, um, push for that, and then it, it kind of got backburnered, you know, with the, the Trump win in, in '24. I don't have as good of an account for why now. You know, like, and, and of course, OpenAI has sort of signaled their openness to possibly the need for a coordinated slowdown as well. Why has this entered the OpenAI internal Overton window and, you know, why are they also willing to say it right now? I don't have a, a super great account for that. I actually did speak to somebody at OpenAI who kinda said, "I can tell you there's been more talk of it lately." Didn't seem like they had a super clear, you know, mechanistic understanding of why that had happened recently. But maybe one theory is, is simply, you know, along the lines of what you said, you know, what you attributed to Ilya and your quote from the book, "The more godlike AI becomes, the more it will put the fear of God in us, and the better we'll get at cooperating to tame its ferocity." I think there is something. Yikes, you know? Like, the, with the unsolved math problems- Yeah, yeah, yeah…

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