Benjamin Mann

“Even for me and being in the center of a lot of this transformation, I'm not immune to job replacement either. Just some vulnerability there of at some point it's coming for all of us.”

“And if you look at something like sycophancy, I think Claude is one of the least sycophantic models because we've put so much effort into actual alignment and not just trying to good heart our metrics...”

“I'll just give a quick overview of how constitutionally AI actually works.”

“And then we say, "Okay, in the future just produce the correct response out the gate." And that simple process, hopefully it sounded simple.”

“Yeah, I guess I mostly defer to the superforecasters here. The AI 2027 report is probably the best one right now. Although ironically, their forecast is now 2028, and they didn't want to change the na...”

“Yeah. RLAIF is reinforcement learning from AI feedback.”

“The stupid answer is data centers and power chips. I think if we had 10 times as many chips and had the data centers to power them, then maybe we wouldn't go 10 times faster, but it would be a real si...”

“And that's just wild to think of, and yet Moore's law somehow continues in some form. And so yes, there are these theoretical physics constraints that people are starting to run into and yet they're f...”

“I have two dumb answers. First for fun.”

“The first is there's this Asimov short story I love called the last question where the protagonist is throughout the eras of history is trying to ask this super intelligence how do we prevent the heat...”

“Okay, I'll give it away. It keeps saying, "Need more information, need more compute." And then finally, as it's approaching the heat death of the universe, it says, "Let there be light," and then it s...”

“That's the first cheat answer. The second cheat answer is what question can I ask you to get end more questions answered.”