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01 / 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.”
02 / 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.”
03 / 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.”
04 / 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.”
05 / 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.”
06 / 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.”
07 / belief
“I think we might just want to avoid having to build an AI that we're comfortable with being in that position.”
08 / 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.”
09 / 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.”
10 / belief
“I think about some of the reports as much more like, “I'm more fully optimizing for trying to do something impactful.”
11 / belief
“One possibility is that the thing we care about in consciousness or sentience is super contingent and fragile.”