OpenAI fired two employees who had been on its superalignment team, Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaking information, and al

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2024-04-18 17:30:07

OpenAI fired two employees who had been on its superalignment team, Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaking information, and also more troubliningly lost Daniel Kokotajlo, who expects AGI very soon, does not expect it to by default go well, and says he quit ‘due to losing confidence that [OpenAI] would behave responsibly around the time of AGI.’ That’s not good.

On the plus side, my 80,000 Hours podcast finally saw the light of day, and Ezra Klein had an excellent (although troubling) podcast with Dario Amodei. And we got the usual mix of incremental useful improvements and other nice touches.

Ashwin Sharma: reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance changed the way I looked at the inner workings of my mind. It was like unlocking a secret level of a video game. what are you reading today?

Tom Crean: Tried to read Zen... as a teenager and felt disoriented by it. I kept wondering who "Phaedrus" was. But I liked the general atmosphere of freedom. The philosophy went over my head.