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Emmett is a self-proclaimed AI doomer. Given some of his Tweets from the past, it's likely the board indeed wants someone who will takes things slower: https://archive.is/tuf3s https://archive.is/sNvvs

This is probably not something you want to hear as a researcher who is motivated by pushing the frontiers of our capabilities, nor as a researcher who is motivated by pushing their compensation.

>>Palmik+(OP)
But what are you going to do if your ambitions cannot be met with the money and resources they require, especially in the long term? They look like they're tripping over hard limits.

>>Palmik+(OP)
I'd say it sounds like they want to go faster with research and slower with commercializing the outputs of the research.

>>yeck+X
Accelerating research on increasing reasoning / intelligence capabilities of AI? That is opposite of what Emmett seemed to advocate recently, so it would be strange to pick him as the CEO if they really wanted to accelerate that.

>>Palmik+T1
Those are not the only things to research, but I wouldn't assume that capability-base research would stop. I mean, they want to create AI to perform AI alignment, so their road map includes capability research.

The for-profit bender that OpenAI was on appears to have been more of the issue. It's one thing to create greater capabilities for enhancing the rate of research, and another rushing those capabilities to market.

>>Palmik+(OP)
Those researchers should be met with restraint.

One can ultimately still push the frontiers while also showing restraint - stop acting like it's either-or.

>>Klonoa+U6
?? I guess you can walk into the frontier a little slower if you don't mind someone else settling it before you.