What Paul Christiano thinks about scaling laws

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AI alignment researcher. Led the alignment team at OpenAI, founded the Alignment Research Center, and wrote the case for a continuous rather than explosive path to advanced AI at The Sideways View.

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1. 24 Feb 2018

   Our readingThe gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability, because evolution was not optimising chimps for technology.

   Their wordsBut chimp evolution is not primarily selecting for making and using technology, for doing science, or for facilitating cultural accumulation.

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