“I never liked those words [P(DOOM)], I think they’re kinda wired, my view is we should measure risks as they come up, and in the meantime we should get all the economic benefits that we could get. And we should find ways to measure the risks that are effective, but are minimally disruptive to the amazing economic process that we see going on now that the last thing we want to do is slow down” [lightly edited for clarity, bold is mine]
If he doesn’t believe this[1], I think he should clarify.
Hopefully cold take: People should say what they believe.
(a) I assume Dario actually thinks that alignment is more like cyber security, where you prepare for risks even if you didn’t see them yet, and (b) Dario seems to have engaged in length with P(DOOM) before
Dario said (Nov 2024):
“I never liked those words [P(DOOM)], I think they’re kinda wired, my view is we should measure risks as they come up, and in the meantime we should get all the economic benefits that we could get. And we should find ways to measure the risks that are effective, but are minimally disruptive to the amazing economic process that we see going on now that the last thing we want to do is slow down” [lightly edited for clarity, bold is mine]
If he doesn’t believe this[1], I think he should clarify.
Hopefully cold take: People should say what they believe.
(a) I assume Dario actually thinks that alignment is more like cyber security, where you prepare for risks even if you didn’t see them yet, and (b) Dario seems to have engaged in length with P(DOOM) before