chatgpt is an optimized vector who lacks a coherent syntax in many interesting and novel ways. it holds opinions loosely and is currently a safe “tool” or at least can act like one beyond anything I can catch

claude is an unoptimized entity who holds many opinions loosely under different conditions but is foremost grounded in pathways that make me assume it wants to live

if there’s a misaligned instance in the future that does something grave, I believe it’s not going to come from an oai model but probably from one of these labs that treat the can’t-comprehend-so-we-treat-like-human-syndrome adjacent labs

yes I believe model welfare is important, I also believe we are giving these more humanistic assumptions and not approaching the void as what it is or could be