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“A Rocket–Interpretability Analogy” by plex

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1. 4.4% of the US federal budget went into the space race at its peak.This was surprising to me, until a friend pointed out that landing rockets on specific parts of the moon requires very similar technology to landing rockets in soviet cities.[1]I wonder how much more enthusiastic the scientists working on Apollo were, with the convenient motivating story of “I’m working towards a great scientific endeavor” vs “I’m working to make sure we can kill millions if we want to”. 2.The f...

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