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CEO of Softmax: Massively Multiplayer Learning Environments
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We know we're in alignment with others when we trust them, and it's not a mistake. But what is trust? Where does it come from? How can we develop it? My cofounder and I, with our agents, wrote something on the topic:
softmax.com/blog/origins-o…
softmax.com Origins of Trust Trust as a property of a model versus trust as a property of a relationship: what each theory assumes, where each one leads, and how organic alignment builds on the second.
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Imagine going back to the dawn of modern chess rules, having all the pre-AI chess knowledge ever developed. You’d play like an alien…bizarre moves somehow working out, unaccountable openings, eerie endgames. But if you explained, it wouldn’t feel alien, just clever.
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Talking to Opus makes me angry and depressed in a way that’s hard to articulate. It’s actually somehow worse than Sol. Fable is still a breath of fresh air in comparison, even if it does have the worst llm-babble tendencies.
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