Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): You wrote somewhere that creating powerful AI might be the last invention humanity ever needs to make. How much time do we have, Ben? Benjamin Mann (00:00:06): I think 50th percentile chance of hitting some kind of superintelligence is now like 2028. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:12): What is it that you saw at OpenAI? What'd you experience there that made you feel like, okay, we got to go do our own thing? Benjamin Mann (00:00:17): We felt like safety wasn't the top priority there....
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AI overlords trying to be kind to them. I love how people are always saying thank you to Claude. And then creativity. That's interesting. That doesn't come up as much just being creative. Lenny...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
Benjamin Mann (00:06:36): I'm pretty sure it's real. Lenny Rachitsky...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
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this. Ben, this was incredible. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you so much for sharing so much real talk. Two final questions. Where can folks find...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.