And I agree with Bryan Caplan’s recent take that friendships are often a bigger conflict of interest than money, so Open Phil higher-ups being friends with Anthropic higher-ups is troubling.
OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and live in the same house as Holden. In addition, Holden is engaged to Dario’s sister Daniela.
Wish OpenPhil and EAs in general were more willing to reflect/talk publicly about their mistakes. Kind of understandable given human nature, but still… (I wonder if there are any mistakes I’ve made that I should reflect more on.)
No kidding. From https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/openai-general-support/:
Wish OpenPhil and EAs in general were more willing to reflect/talk publicly about their mistakes. Kind of understandable given human nature, but still… (I wonder if there are any mistakes I’ve made that I should reflect more on.)