This is nice to read, because it seems Sam is more often on the defensive in public recently and comes across sounding more “accel” than I’m comfortable with. In this video from 6 years ago, various figures like Hassabis and Bostrom (Sam is not there) propose on several occasions exactly what’s happening now—a period of rapid development, perhaps to provoke people into action / regulation while the stakes are somewhat lower, which makes me think this may have been in part what Sam was thinking all along too.
This is nice to read, because it seems Sam is more often on the defensive in public recently and comes across sounding more “accel” than I’m comfortable with. In this video from 6 years ago, various figures like Hassabis and Bostrom (Sam is not there) propose on several occasions exactly what’s happening now—a period of rapid development, perhaps to provoke people into action / regulation while the stakes are somewhat lower, which makes me think this may have been in part what Sam was thinking all along too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0962biiZa4