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Noah Birnbaum's avatar

Do you know if anyone has done an analysis of how many people are actually working on these risks (especially broken up into different types - ie misalignment, misuse, etc)? I know 80k used to say 200 people but that was like 2021.

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Italo Giardina's avatar

The argument to be part of a statistically significant 'most important transition' has the Pascals Wager sense pertaining to rationalism and rewards for an unknown (effable one) unknown (infinite reward). By safety research participants bet that their inputs as tiny downside risk entail qualitative outputs of huge upside risk as living to the next millennial party may be the case.

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