Fwiw I think it’s worth the effort to include an extra sentence or two elaborating on this whenever Eliezer or whoever uses it as an example. I don’t think ‘burn all the GPUs’ is obvious enough about what it means
I thought it was clear, given the qualifications already offered, that it was more like a ‘directional example’ than a specific, workable, and concrete example.
I that’s true for people paying attention, but a) it’s just worth being clear, and b) this example is getting repeated a lot, often without the disclaims/setup, and (smart, ingroup) people have definitely been confused/surprised when I said “the GPU thing is obviously meant to include ’continuously surviving counterattacks and dealing with the political fallout.”
I think it’s worth having a compact phrase that’s more likely to survive memetic drift.
I think this is basically what the “burn all GPUs” scenario entails, and I agree this is harder.
Fwiw I think it’s worth the effort to include an extra sentence or two elaborating on this whenever Eliezer or whoever uses it as an example. I don’t think ‘burn all the GPUs’ is obvious enough about what it means
I thought it was clear, given the qualifications already offered, that it was more like a ‘directional example’ than a specific, workable, and concrete example.
I that’s true for people paying attention, but a) it’s just worth being clear, and b) this example is getting repeated a lot, often without the disclaims/setup, and (smart, ingroup) people have definitely been confused/surprised when I said “the GPU thing is obviously meant to include ’continuously surviving counterattacks and dealing with the political fallout.”
I think it’s worth having a compact phrase that’s more likely to survive memetic drift.
Updated – thanks!
Do you have any candidates in mind?