Dan Hendrycks: belief

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…So this is dark and going back to the beginning of our conversation, it's a reason to stand in front of the train, especially a particular train. So let's say that there's 1 train that's about chatbots and people having fun with chatbots and using them for brainstorming and whatever that are not mission critical and safety critical. Maybe it's fine. We just let people do that. And there are already some risks like around delusions that that Keshmir Hill wrote about in New York Times the other day, you probably saw. But the really safety critical things or the maximally safety critical things, if if things are as dark as you said, that is a reason to stand in front of that train right now and say, look, if we can't do alignment well on the refusals, etcetera, and the cause to harm causing harm to humans, foreseeable harm even to humans, that's a reason to say, hey, we gotta wait until we have a better solution here. If that takes 500 years, if it takes 5 years, like, in the safety critical stuff, isn't that a reason to to, you know, slow things down a bit? I think that that's, that's a direction or an interpretation of those facts that that had that is reasonable, but but there's there's a question of incentives and what you know, there might be a a somewhat different ask that's better. You could go at it by incentives.…

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