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Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)

Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)

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Joe Carlsmith is a writer, researcher, and philosopher. He works at Anthropic on the character/constitution/spec for Claude. Before that, he was a senior advisor at Open Philanthropy.


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Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)

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