Paul Christiano: commitment

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…And then is funding that would matter? I mean, funding is always good. We’re not super funding constrained right now. The main effect of funding is it will cause me to continuously and perhaps indefinitely delay fundraising. Periodically. I’ll set out to be interested in fundraising and someone will be like, offer a grant, and then I will get to delay for another six months or fundraising or nine months, or you can you can delay the time at which Paul needs to think for some time about fundraising. Well, one question I think would be interesting to ask, you know, I think people can talk vaguely about the value of theoretical research and how it contributes to real world applications and you can look at historical examples or something, but you are somebody who actually has done this in a big way. Like Rlhf is something you developed and then it actually has got into an application that has been used by millions of people. Tell me about just that pipeline. How can you reliably identify theoretical problems that will matter for real world applications? Because it’s one thing to read about touring or something and the Halting problem, but here you’d have the real thing.…

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