Yeah I think my complaint is that OpenAI seems to be asserting almost a “boundary” re goal (B), like there’s nothing that trades off against staying at the front of the race, and they’re willing to pay large costs rather than risk being the second-most-impressive AI lab. Why? Things don’t add up.
(Example large cost: they’re not putting large organizational attention to the alignment problem. The alignment team projects don’t have many people working on them, they’re not doing things like inviting careful thinkers to evaluate their plans under secrecy, or taking any other bunch of obvious actions that come from putting serious resources into not blowing everyone up.)
I don’t buy that (B) is that important. It seems more driven by some strange status / narrative-power thing? And I haven’t ever seen them make an explicit their case for why they’re sacrificing so much for (B). Especially when a lot of their original safety people fucking left due to some conflict around this?
Broadly many things about their behaviour strike me as deceptive / making it hard to form a counternarrative / trying to conceal something odd about their plans.
One final question: why do they say “we think it would be good if an international agency limited compute growth” but not also “and we will obviously be trying to partner with other labs to do this ourselves in the meantime, although not if another lab is already training something more powerful than GPT-4″?
Yeah I think my complaint is that OpenAI seems to be asserting almost a “boundary” re goal (B), like there’s nothing that trades off against staying at the front of the race, and they’re willing to pay large costs rather than risk being the second-most-impressive AI lab. Why? Things don’t add up.
(Example large cost: they’re not putting large organizational attention to the alignment problem. The alignment team projects don’t have many people working on them, they’re not doing things like inviting careful thinkers to evaluate their plans under secrecy, or taking any other bunch of obvious actions that come from putting serious resources into not blowing everyone up.)
I don’t buy that (B) is that important. It seems more driven by some strange status / narrative-power thing? And I haven’t ever seen them make an explicit their case for why they’re sacrificing so much for (B). Especially when a lot of their original safety people fucking left due to some conflict around this?
Broadly many things about their behaviour strike me as deceptive / making it hard to form a counternarrative / trying to conceal something odd about their plans.
One final question: why do they say “we think it would be good if an international agency limited compute growth” but not also “and we will obviously be trying to partner with other labs to do this ourselves in the meantime, although not if another lab is already training something more powerful than GPT-4″?