This incident makes me feel sympathy for people whose words have more than personal consequence. And for twitter users. Seems like a tough place.
I assume Eliezer is at least 50% BSing, but now the words are going to get taken out of context and interpreted as some kind of official statement. Which, to be fair, should have been completely obvious.
I don’t know why you think Eliezer is BSing at all. I agree he is an incredible troll in-person and is very funny, but this reads to me as straightforwardly describing how he sees the situation.
This incident makes me feel sympathy for people whose words have more than personal consequence. And for twitter users. Seems like a tough place.
I assume Eliezer is at least 50% BSing, but now the words are going to get taken out of context and interpreted as some kind of official statement. Which, to be fair, should have been completely obvious.
I don’t know why you think Eliezer is BSing at all. I agree he is an incredible troll in-person and is very funny, but this reads to me as straightforwardly describing how he sees the situation.
Yeah, I was assuming he was completely serious , otherwise I would have been hesitant to pick out the quote.
I’m guessing he would have a much more nuanced view of the origins of OpenAI off Twitter.
Eliezer seriously believing this is consistent with what I heard while working at MIRI at the time of OpenAI’s creation.