"Working at AI labs is like microdosing": safety community meme sparks debate
repligate · x · 2026-10-31
jankulveit offers a conceptual metaphor: AI lab employees live in an epistemic state akin to microdosing — chronically, mildly altered — and wrote a post arguing understanding this would help people inside and outside the labs. repligate quips back: does being in the safety community count as microdosing too?
Related event: LessWrong Essay Compares AI Lab Insiders' Cognition to Microdosing(3 posts)→
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