Ryan Kidd

He's raising huge amounts of money for his models.

Maybe he is going to make more money this way, an expectation that he would have made staying at OpenAI.

It's possible.

He's got his own company now.

He still retains OpenAI stock, I'm sure.

He gets to, yeah.

My earliest perception of a person advocating for this was Paul Cristiano, you know, his takeoff speeds post pushing back against, I suppose what he saw is like predominantly the Miri perspective of the time, like, oh, we're going to, you know, we're going to build the thing in secret or I don't, frankly, I don't want to,

I don't know what Mary's objectives were, but I know that they were trying very hard to not leak any information about their alignment research in some areas.

Other areas, they published great papers and so on.

But Paul Cristiano at the time was pushing back against this kind of... He thought that fast takeoff was what would happen if you had a bunch of...

dry tinder lying around.

So if we had tons and tons and tons of GPUs and then we stopped research for a year and then started again, well, you'd expect a steeper growth, right?

And we're seeing this in terms of very, very fast followers.

This is not just a phenomenon in AI, right?

In economies, right?

It's like I recently did a study where they showed like the pace of like new AI companies approaching the frontier is just so much faster than the pace, which the frontier moves.

Cause there's an abundance of chips.

There's an abundance of data and meth methods and, and so on.

And it's the same with like, you know, catch up economies and so on in the world.

Uh, so I think that Paul Cristiano, you know, he was right in the sense that like, if society is to cope and adapt to AI, then having gradual release and diffusion of technologies is better from that perspective.