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Being robustly tolerable matters most when the expected costs of failure are high.
Drawn from what Amanda Askell said
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What Amanda Askell actually said
- Amanda Askell Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment
Being robustly tolerable is not a particularly valuable trait when the expected costs of failure are low, but it's an extremely valuable trait when the expected costs of failure are high.
Where this was said
↗When robustly tolerable beats precariously optimal (Amanda Askell's Blog)askell.blog
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