Too many people spend their lives being dutiful descendants instead of good ancestors.
The responsibility of each generation is not to please their predecessors. It's to improve things for their offspring.
It's more important to make your children proud than your parents proud.
I think I'm not supposed to say that OpenAI just released the best alignment paper in the world so far, but we did.
Congrats to the team, and look forward to being able to say this many more times!
1/The rise of Software Engineering required inventing processes like version control, code review, agile, to help teams work effectively. The rise of AI & Machine Learning Engineering is now requiring new processes, like how we split train/dev/test, model zoos, etc.