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Safety-usefulness Pareto frontier definition sweeps in all capabilities research

Safety-usefulness Pareto frontier definition sweeps in all capabilities research

A LessWrong essay argues that defining safety research as pushing out the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier ends up counting basically all capabilities research as safety research.

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