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Comment by scarmig

7 days ago

> especially for biology where it doesn't refuse to answer harmless questions

Usually, when you decrease false positive rates, you increase false negative rates.

Maybe this doesn't matter for models at their current capabilities, but if you believe that AGI is imminent, a bit of conservatism seems responsible.

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