Near Horizons
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Image by Claude Opus 5.5 using Python (NumPy and Pillow) This is written in my free time and personal capacity. Two Frames In AI safety, there are a couple of tensions at the heart of the field, which are interrelated. [1] Talent: we are talent-constrained and must recruit. But jobs and fellowships turn away nearly everyone. [2] Field size: we must expand the field and bring more people in. But the field is flooded with slop papers in conferences. And, most papers have a small audience, and aim to shift the practices of roughly five labs (and usually some subteam within them). [3] Status: we m
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