I worry that people will skip the post, read this comment, and misunderstand the post, so I want to point out how this comment might be misleading, even though it’s a great comment.
None of the interventions in the post are “go work at OpenAI to change things from the inside.” And only the outreach ones sound anything like “going around and convincing others.” And there’s a disclaimer that these interventions have serious downside risks and require extremely competent execution.
EDIT: one idea in the 2nd post is to join safety and governance teams at top labs like OpenAI. This seems reasonable to me? (“Go work on capabilities at OpenAI to change things” would sound unreasonable.)
I worry that people will skip the post, read this comment, and misunderstand the post, so I want to point out how this comment might be misleading, even though it’s a great comment.
None of the interventions in the post are “go work at OpenAI to change things from the inside.” And only the outreach ones sound anything like “going around and convincing others.” And there’s a disclaimer that these interventions have serious downside risks and require extremely competent execution.
EDIT: one idea in the 2nd post is to join safety and governance teams at top labs like OpenAI. This seems reasonable to me? (“Go work on capabilities at OpenAI to change things” would sound unreasonable.)