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Do not ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence.


“Do not only ..”, or “Do not immediately ..” are reasonable and wise.

But that absolutist “Do not” is neither wise nor reasonable. Malicious actors do exist.


Do not ascribe incompetence to anyone in a position of power, because incompetence at scale is indistinguishable from malice.


That's about outcomes. But intent matters and I don't think Ilya had the intent of blowing up OpenAI though how he could not see that coming is something that I fail to understand. You don't pull a palace revolution like that without a plan on what you will do if it succeeds.


Hanlon's Razor is for idiots, even mischievous toddlers intuitively figure out the "oops" excuse.


I think it’s a mistake to confuse either of them for greed.


Greed is a form of malice, in my opinion.




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