Frankenstein is a tale about misalignment. Asimov wrote a whole book about it. Vernor Vinge also writes about it. People have been trying to get their children to behave in certain ways for ever. But before LW the alignment problem was just the domain of SF.
20 years ago the alignment problem wasn’t a thing, so much that MIRI started out as an org to create a Friendly AI.
What did smart people in the eras before LessWrong say about the alignment problem?
Frankenstein is a tale about misalignment. Asimov wrote a whole book about it. Vernor Vinge also writes about it. People have been trying to get their children to behave in certain ways for ever. But before LW the alignment problem was just the domain of SF.
20 years ago the alignment problem wasn’t a thing, so much that MIRI started out as an org to create a Friendly AI.