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Radical transparency prevents corporate dysfunction
  • Avoids 'corpo speak' and defensive communication
  • Acknowledges problems openly
  • Hires for trust to enable unfiltered discussion
  • Contrasts with decoherence at other AI companies
Dario AmodeiDwarkesh Patel02:21:01

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The point is to get a reputation of telling the company the truth about what's happening, to call things what they are, to acknowledge problems, to avoid the sort of corpo speak, the kind of defensive communication that often is necessary in public because the world is very large and full of people who are interpreting things in bad faith. Dario Amodei
We've seen as some of the other AI companies have grown—without naming any names—we're starting to see decoherence and people fighting each other. Dario Amodei

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