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01 / evaluation
“Then when the children show some obviously fake opportunity to defect to the allies, it's not necessarily going to be a good test of what it will do in the real circumstance because it's able to tell the difference.”
02 / belief
“Even when I try to channel some skepticism towards great works, I think that doesn't generalize to thinking it's not worth understanding human history.”
03 / belief
“I think we as a civilization are going to have a very serious conversation about what sort of servitude is appropriate or inappropriate in the context of AI development.”
04 / uncertainty
“Something happens when I stub my toe. It's unclear exactly how to name it, but there’s something about that I'm pretty focused on.”
05 / belief
“” Whereas I think some of our other values are much more structured around cooperation and things that also are effective and functional and powerful.”
06 / uncertainty
“If you imagine that you try to have full knowledge of what the future of the universe will be like…” I don't know.”
07 / belief
“Again, we then have to ask how janky is pleasure, how specific and contingent is the thing we care about in pleasure versus how robust is this as a functional role in minds of all kinds.”
08 / belief
“A model's verbal behavior—even if it has a planning process (which GPT-4, I think, doesn't in many cases)—doesn't necessarily reflect those criteria.”
09 / belief
“"I'm inclined to think that utopia, however weird, would also be in a certain sense recognizable; that if we really understood and experienced it, we would see in it the same thing that made us sit bolt upright long ago when we first touched love, joy, beauty; that we would feel in front of the bonfire the heat of the ember from which it was lit. There would be, I think, a kind of remembering.”
10 / belief
“I think we might just want to avoid having to build an AI that we're comfortable with being in that position.”
11 / commitment
“You might be worried that we will be very gentle and nice and free with the AIs, and then they'll kill us.”
12 / belief
“Some people spend a lot of time on the space stuff, but I think for the immediately pressing stuff about AI, it doesn’t require that at all.”
13 / belief
“Obviously in some sense, when we talk about a good future, we need to be thinking, “What are all the stakeholders here and how does it all fit together?” When I think about it, the thing that matters about the lineage is this.”
14 / belief
“I think about some of the reports as much more like, “I'm more fully optimizing for trying to do something impactful.”
15 / belief
“One possibility is that the thing we care about in consciousness or sentience is super contingent and fragile.”
16 / prediction
“I'm much more bullish on our ability to solve this problem, especially for AIs that are in what I think of as the "AI for AI safety sweet spot.”
17 / evaluation
“The most straightforward thing to focus on—I don't blame people for just talking about this one—is just the first one. It's quite robust according to our own ethics, when we think about in which context is it appropriate to try to exert various types of control, or to have more of what I call in the series "yang," which is this active controlling force, as opposed to "yin," which is this more receptive and open, letting go.”
18 / preference
“There’s some way in which I'm trying to embody attitudes towards them that I hope they would embody towards me. It's unclear exactly what the ground of that is, but I really like the golden rule and think a lot about it as a basis for treatment of other beings.”
19 / evaluation
“I think if something is not conscious—and there's like a deep difference between conscious and unconscious—then I definitely have the intuition that there's something that matters especially a lot about consciousness.”
20 / evaluation
“For example, if someone says, "Medical care doesn't work," you have to consider how you know it does work.”