@paul_cal: When Eliezer retweeted this earlier I thought he'd missed the joke. But there was no joke
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Robert O'Callahan resigned from Google because his team was working on AI chips and he believes AI is progressing too fast, with Eliezer Yudkowsky retweeting the announcement to emphasize its importance.
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When Eliezer retweeted this earlier I thought he’d missed the joke. But there was no joke
Robert O’Callahan (@rocallahan): I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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