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Never failing is a sign of being too risk averse, which is costly.
Drawn from what Amanda Askell said
Mental modelProbabilistic thinking
What Amanda Askell actually said
- Amanda Askell Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment
if you find you’re never failing, there’s a good chance you’re being too risk averse, and being too risk averse is costly.
Where this was said
↗The optimal rate of failure (Amanda Askell's Blog)askell.blog
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