Where compute becomes
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A doctor's dinner table, a phrase that got cut from a hat, and how I ended up on OpenAI's Safety Measurement team.
My dad is a doctor. For as long as I can remember, he sat across the dinner table and talked about his research, his institute, what it actually means to make a difference, and the oldest rule in his field: do no harm. Those conversations shaped me long before I understood why. They shaped what I thought a meaningful life looked like, and for a long time I assumed mine would look like his. I wanted to go into medicine. At some point (likely after I passed out from donating blood a few times too many) it started to feel like a door wasn't going to open for me in healthcare. So I went…
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