He’s the best person they could have gotten on the technical side but Paul’s strategic thinking has been consistently clear eyed and realistic but also constructive, see for example this: www.alignmentforum.org/posts/fRSj2W4Fjje8rQWm9/thoughts-on-sharing-information-about-language-model
So to the extent that he’ll have influence on general policy as well this seems great!
He’s the best person they could have gotten on the technical side but Paul’s strategic thinking has been consistently clear eyed and realistic but also constructive, see for example this: www.alignmentforum.org/posts/fRSj2W4Fjje8rQWm9/thoughts-on-sharing-information-about-language-model
So to the extent that he’ll have influence on general policy as well this seems great!