I like this because it’s something to point to when arguing with somebody with an obvious bias toward anthropomorphizing the agents.
You show them a model like this, then you say, “Oh, the agent can reduce its movement penalty if it first consumes this other orange glowing box. The orange glowing box in this case is ‘humanity’ but the agent doesn’t care.”
edit: Don’t normally care about downvotes, but my model of LW does not predict 4 downvotes for this post, am I missing something?
I was also surprised to see your comment downvoted.
That said, I don’t think I see the value of the thing you proposed saying, since the framing of reducing the movement penalty by consuming an orange box which represents humanity doesn’t seem clarifying.
Why does consuming the box reduce the movement penalty? Is it because, outside of the analogy, in reality humanity could slow down or get in the way of the AI? Then why not just say that?
I wouldn’t have given you a downvote for it, but maybe others also thought your analogy seemed forced and are just harsher critics than I.
I like this because it’s something to point to when arguing with somebody with an obvious bias toward anthropomorphizing the agents.
You show them a model like this, then you say, “Oh, the agent can reduce its movement penalty if it first consumes this other orange glowing box. The orange glowing box in this case is ‘humanity’ but the agent doesn’t care.”
edit: Don’t normally care about downvotes, but my model of LW does not predict 4 downvotes for this post, am I missing something?
I was also surprised to see your comment downvoted.
That said, I don’t think I see the value of the thing you proposed saying, since the framing of reducing the movement penalty by consuming an orange box which represents humanity doesn’t seem clarifying.
Why does consuming the box reduce the movement penalty? Is it because, outside of the analogy, in reality humanity could slow down or get in the way of the AI? Then why not just say that?
I wouldn’t have given you a downvote for it, but maybe others also thought your analogy seemed forced and are just harsher critics than I.