Daniel Kokotajlo
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is clearly not a sustainable gambit on OpenAI's behalf.
And so I'm curious from your perspective, somebody who lived through it, why do you think you were the first person to actually call the bluff?
Yeah.
I will note that I know at least of one other person who made that same choice.
Leopold?
That's right, Leopold.
And again, it's worth emphasizing that when they made this choice, they thought that they were actually losing this equity.
They didn't think that this was like, oh, this is just a show or whatever.
I actually don't know.
And how did this episode in general inform your worldview around how people will make high stakes decisions where potentially their own self-interest is involved in this kind of key period that you imagine will happen by the end of the decade?
Okay, Scott, can I ask you some questions?
Of course.
How often do you discover a new blogger you're super excited about?
Order of once a year.
Okay.
And how often after you discover them does the rest of the world discover them?
On the point about, well, there's people who can write short form, so why isn't that translating?
I will mention something that has actually radicalized me against Twitter as an information source is I'll meet, and this has happened multiple times, I'll meet somebody who seems to be an interesting poster, has funny, seemingly insightful posts on Twitter.
I'll meet them in person, and they are just absolute idiots.
Like there's like, it's like they've got 240 characters of something that sounds insightful and it matches to somebody who maybe has a deep worldview might say, but they actually don't have it.