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Miles Brundage's mental models

2 claims Miles Brundage made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Skin in the game. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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Charlie MungerBill AckmanMarc AndreessenNaval Ravikant

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Companies do not have sufficient incentives to mitigate the major risks of AI, and competition between them is driving corner-cutting.

  1. Miles Brundage Independent AI policy researcher 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. Some Very Important Things (That I Won't Be Working On This Year)milesbrundage.substack.com · 15 Feb 2025All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsContrary 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.

    ↗Some Very Important Things (That I Won't Be Working On This Year)milesbrundage.substack.com

    15 Feb 2025

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Skin in the game

Trust the judgment of people who pay for being wrong over people who only comment.

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David Heinemeier HanssonKent BeckPolly D'Arcyswyx

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AI companies will not fix their own security without outside pressure, because they bear the cost of investing and everyone else bears the cost of their not investing.

  1. Miles Brundage Independent AI policy researcher And while the costs of investing in security are largely borne by the company, the costs of under-investing are borne by a much larger set of actors, e.g. perhaps the country or world as a whole. Why Security Comes Firstmilesbrundage.substack.com · 10 Jan 2025All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsAnd while the costs of investing in security are largely borne by the company, the costs of under-investing are borne by a much larger set of actors, e.g. perhaps the country or world as a whole.

    ↗Why Security Comes Firstmilesbrundage.substack.com

    10 Jan 2025