it turned out the model did not work… It is fairly reasonable to suggest that the person then took the action that made them feel the best about their legacy and status
Reading this I realise I developed most of my attitudes toward the topic when I believed that the copy was full-strength, and only in writing the post did I find out that it wasn’t—in fact it seems that it was weaker than the initial 117M version OpenAI released. You’re right that this makes the ‘release’ option less exciting from the perspective of one’s personal status, which (the status lens) would then predict taking whichever different action would give more personal status, and this is arguably one of those actions.
Just now I found this comment in the medium comment section, where Connor agrees with you about it being symbolic, and mentions how this affected his thinking.
...I did admit failure as I linked to said failure in the very first paragraph, and I have no intentions of hiding that. In fact, after learning of my failure I was convinced I might as well release, since most safety issues were no longer a threat anyways (though there remains the possibility it could be used as a “warm start” to train a better model). So if anything, my failure encouraged me to dump it, apologize and let history take its course.
My decision not to release is mostly symbolic. I’m doing it to signal good faith cooperation. Even if I failed today, some day someone will succeed, and we should have a default of cooperation before that.
(Meta: Wow, Medium requires you to click twice to go down one step in a comment thread! Turns out there are like 20 comments on the OP.)
Yeah, this is quite important, the attempted copy was weaker than the nerfed model OpenAI initially released. Thanks for emphasising this 9eB1, I’ve updated my post in a few places accordingly.
Reading this I realise I developed most of my attitudes toward the topic when I believed that the copy was full-strength, and only in writing the post did I find out that it wasn’t—in fact it seems that it was weaker than the initial 117M version OpenAI released. You’re right that this makes the ‘release’ option less exciting from the perspective of one’s personal status, which (the status lens) would then predict taking whichever different action would give more personal status, and this is arguably one of those actions.
Just now I found this comment in the medium comment section, where Connor agrees with you about it being symbolic, and mentions how this affected his thinking.
(Meta: Wow, Medium requires you to click twice to go down one step in a comment thread! Turns out there are like 20 comments on the OP.)
Yeah, this is quite important, the attempted copy was weaker than the nerfed model OpenAI initially released. Thanks for emphasising this 9eB1, I’ve updated my post in a few places accordingly.