Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment, as of 2024; previously a research scientist on OpenAI's policy team, with a PhD in philosophy from NYU. Writes at askell.blog.
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Their wordsBeing 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.
Their wordsA benevolent dictatorship may seem surprisingly alluring in bad times, but any political system that enables a benevolent dictatorship also puts you at much greater risk of a malevolent one.