Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems · Joined ⁨Apr⁩ ⁨2022⁩

sometimes a bunny, sometimes a witch, sometimes an operating system designer

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i took a few minutes to quickly read through the essay dario amodei (CEO of anthropic) dropped over the weekend.

my takeaway from it is that "pacing the frontier" is more likely a convenient narrative for a problem the frontier labs are inevitably going to run into anyway: as these monolithic models scale, the physical and economic difficulty of scaling them grows with them.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

anyway, i've had a few people ask for my take on dario amodei's "we must pace the frontier" essay, so i am going to give it a quick read and then write a rebuttal

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