The ‘helps to … and...’ construction really doesn’t convey that ‘it was all a fluke’ thought very distinctly, see? And just before you say it was accidental, you say how people mean it.
And… well, look at “Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)”. It’s pretty devastating (much more incisive than any of the AI researchers’ arguments presented recently), and is sitting at +85 karma after a mere 8 hours.
‘Accidental’, ‘deliberate’, the real word humans do not have such binary distinction. You want people to agree rationally, you end up thinking how to do that, and then you get all the way to the shortcuts that you carefully designed to achieve a bad end state, while thinking good thoughts (you end up with a sort of meaning drift—you work to improve rationality, you work harder, rationality drifts and fuzzes out and now you are down to ideas like lets sign and dance synchronously).
Furthermore, this forum software was NOT written by Eliezer. It is Reddit. It was, matter of factly, designed to maximize irrational-ish behaviour (waste of time online) and it is entirely possible that originally it did not separate the ups and downs to bring sense of unity blah blah blah (which turned out to be unnecessary).
edit: also, read the post he made, it aligns with what i’ve been saying here about AI, even down to the tool-agent distinction. That didn’t really have great effect (not speaking from position of some power).
The ‘helps to … and...’ construction really doesn’t convey that ‘it was all a fluke’ thought very distinctly, see? And just before you say it was accidental, you say how people mean it.
And… well, look at “Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)”. It’s pretty devastating (much more incisive than any of the AI researchers’ arguments presented recently), and is sitting at +85 karma after a mere 8 hours.
‘Accidental’, ‘deliberate’, the real word humans do not have such binary distinction. You want people to agree rationally, you end up thinking how to do that, and then you get all the way to the shortcuts that you carefully designed to achieve a bad end state, while thinking good thoughts (you end up with a sort of meaning drift—you work to improve rationality, you work harder, rationality drifts and fuzzes out and now you are down to ideas like lets sign and dance synchronously).
Furthermore, this forum software was NOT written by Eliezer. It is Reddit. It was, matter of factly, designed to maximize irrational-ish behaviour (waste of time online) and it is entirely possible that originally it did not separate the ups and downs to bring sense of unity blah blah blah (which turned out to be unnecessary).
edit: also, read the post he made, it aligns with what i’ve been saying here about AI, even down to the tool-agent distinction. That didn’t really have great effect (not speaking from position of some power).