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The Stakes of Our Work - by Celeste Li - heart of hearts

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What the Anthropic conflict means for those of us trying to make AI go well

With the recent events concerning Anthropic, I have scattered sentiments that may offer some clarity during this trying time. Some ideas I only vaguely gesture at, but I trust you to glean what is useful for your situation. Our tally of unprecedented developments has become so large that any lamentation on the extraordinary nature of our circumstances is hardly welcome any longer. Undeniably, a new order is struggling to be born. I am reminded of the famous (but tired, certainly) quote of Gramsci from Prison Notebooks (1930), wherein he declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact…

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