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Drawn from what Miles Brundage said
Mental modelIncentives
On the topicWhich mental models help you think better?under our view: Incentives are stronger than anyone admits, including about yourself
Contrary to some people’s beliefs, companies do not in fact have sufficient incentives to mitigate all major risks, and competition is driving corner-cutting that needs to be reined in somehow.
Where this was said
↗Some Very Important Things (That I Won't Be Working On This Year)milesbrundage.substack.com
All 2 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Confidence in safety, not capability, will increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
Altman says confidence in safety rather than capability will increasingly set the pace of progress. Brundage says companies do not have sufficient incentives to mitigate the major risks, and that competition between them makes it worse. One is a prediction about what will govern the pace; the other is a claim about why it will not.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.