If you’re asking me, I could imagine that there is a higher chance to insult individual people who matter, but really I don’t know. I have no qualms if the answer to my first question is ‘basically no reason to be hesitant’.
Yes: A far higher % of OpenAI reads this forum than the other orgs you mentioned. In some sense OpenAI is friends with LW, in a way that is not true for the others.
Do you think there are reasons to avoid publicly debating OpenAI’s impact that wouldn’t apply to, say, Microsoft, or to the EU?
If you’re asking me, I could imagine that there is a higher chance to insult individual people who matter, but really I don’t know. I have no qualms if the answer to my first question is ‘basically no reason to be hesitant’.
Yes: A far higher % of OpenAI reads this forum than the other orgs you mentioned. In some sense OpenAI is friends with LW, in a way that is not true for the others.
Another perspective to “friends” is “trading partners”, which is an intuition I use a lot more often.