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In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters most

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  1. Neel Nanda

    Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind

    In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!

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