Trenton Bricken
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Which I appreciate.
Yeah.
I...
I got slightly annoyed at a friend recently who I think is really talented and clever and interested in AI but has pursued a biology route.
And I just kind of tried to shake them of like you can work on AI if you want to.
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humans are artificial, not artificial, are biological general intelligences where a lot of the things of value are just very general.
And whatever kind of specialization that you've done maybe just doesn't matter that much.
I mean, again, it gets back to the sunk cost.
But like so many of the people, even my colleagues at Anthropic,
are excited about AI and they just don't let their previous career be a blocker.
And because they're just like innately smart, talented, driven, whatever else, they end up being very successful and finding roles.
It's not as if they were in AI forever.
I mean, people have come from totally different fields.
And so don't think that you need like permission from some abstract entity to like get involved and apply and be able to contribute.
I mean, on that note, I think model diffing has a bunch of opportunities.
Also, people say, oh, we're not capturing all the features.
There's all this stuff left on the table.
What is that stuff that's left on the table?
Like, if the model's jailbroken,