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First, that it has arranged to be controlled by a Long-Term Benefit Trust: "an independent body of five financially disinterested members with an authority to select and remove a portion of our Board that will grow over time (ultimately, a majority of our Board)". (https://www.anthropic.com/index/the-long-term-benefit-trust)

Second, that it also published and committed to a Responsible Scaling Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropics-responsible-scali...

Disclaimer: I work at Anthropic

The tablets like these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GCN88WX/) are honestly pretty palatable - I chew them a couple times and then wash down with water, and it avoids some of the gumminess reviewers describe.

There's also a liquid that I think might find a bit more effective, but less palatable and convenient on-the-go (https://www.amazon.com/Gaviscon-Advance-Aniseed-500/dp/B01N4...).

Under the hood it composes many calls to GPT-3 and other models in a big DAG workflow, parses things like "is this an RCT", "what was the effect size", "what critiques have other authors made about this paper".

Not affiliated, just think that it's a promising direction. You can read more about their motivation here: https://ought.org/elicit

That said, you might enjoy Scott Alexander's essay "Meditations on Moloch", describing how many aspects of our society are multipolar traps / races to the bottom: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

A sample:

  Imagine a capitalist in a cutthroat industry. He employs workers in a sweatshop to sew garments, which he sells at minimal profit. Maybe he would like to pay his workers more, or give them nicer working conditions. But he can’t, because that would raise the price of his products and he would be outcompeted by his cheaper rivals and go bankrupt. Maybe many of his rivals are nice people who would like to pay their workers more, but unless they have some kind of ironclad guarantee that none of them are going to defect by undercutting their prices they can’t do it.

  Like the rats, who gradually lose all values except sheer competition, so companies in an economic environment of sufficiently intense competition are forced to abandon all values except optimizing-for-profit or else be outcompeted by companies that optimized for profit better and so can sell the same service at a lower price.

See section 3.1.1 here: https://galactica.org/static/paper.pdf

Example from the paper below:

  Question: A needle 35 mm long rests on a water surface at 20◦C. What force over and above the needle’s weight
  is required to lift the needle from contact with the water surface? σ = 0.0728m.
  <work>
  σ = 0.0728 N/m
  σ = F/L
  0.0728 = F/(2 × 0.035)
  F = 0.0728(2 × 0.035)
  calculate.py
  ‘‘‘
  f = 0.0728*(2*0.035)
  with open("output.txt", "w") as file:
  file.write(str(round(f, 5)))
  ‘‘‘
  «run: "calculate.py">
  «read: "output.txt"»
  0.0051
  </work>
  Answer: F = 0.0051 N