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> I have yet to meet a single AI safety person that knows how to rename a file in linux.

You are meeting very few AI safety people then. A significant fraction of the AI safety people I've run into can build and train an LLM from scratch (without AI assistance FWIW), let alone have a grasp of basic command-line operations.

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Where are you running into these unicorn AI safety people?

CEN and CENELEC

People who have gone through MATS (ML Alignment & Theory Scholars), SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research), ARENA (Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator), or any of those other similar programs.

More generally a lot of the denizens on https://www.alignmentforum.org/

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