Chris Leong
Organiser @ AI Safety Australia and NZ
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Currently doing local AI safety Movement Building in Australia and NZ.
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Honestly, I don't care enough to post any further replies. I've spent too much time on this whole Epoch thing already (not just through this post, but through other comments). I've been reflecting recently on how I spend my time and I've realised that I often make poor decisions here. I've shared my opinion, if your opinion is different, that's perfectly fine, but I'm out.
I took a look at the post announcing Epoch.
It was interesting noting this comment by Ofer:
Jaime Sevilla replied:
Additionally, looking at the post itself:
It's up to the reader to form their own judgement, but it certainly seems to me that the AI Safety community was too ready to trust Epoch.
I would like to suggest that folk not downvote this post below zero. I'm generally in favour of allowing people to defend themselves, unless their response is clearly in bad faith. I'm sure many folk strongly disagree with the OP's desired social norms, but this is different from bad faith.
Additionally, I suspect most of us have very little insight into how community health operates and this post provides some much needed visibility. Regardless of whether you think their response was just right, too harsh or too lenient, this post opens up a rare opportunity for the community to weigh in.
I suspect people are downvoting this post either because they think the author is a bad person or they don't want the author at EA events. I would suggest that neither of these are good reasons to downvote this specific post into the negative.