I don’t think OP asserted that this specific plan was fixed, it was an example of a back-chaining plan, but I see how “a world-saving plan” could imply that it was this specific plan, which it wasn’t.
I didn’t specify which small group was taking over the world, I didn’t mean to imply that it had to be MIRI specifically, maybe the comparison with Leverage led to that seeming like it was implied?
I still don’t understand how I’m misconstruing Eliezer’s tweets, it seems very clear to me that he’s saying something about how neural nets work would be very upsetting if learned about and I don’t see what else he could be saying.
Regarding Eliezer’s tweets, I think the issue is that he is joking about the “never stop screaming”. He is using humor to point at a true fact, that it’s really unfortunate how unreliable neural nets are, but he’s not actually saying that if you study neural nets until you understand them then you will have a psychotic break and never stop screaming.
With regard to the specific misconstruals:
I don’t think OP asserted that this specific plan was fixed, it was an example of a back-chaining plan, but I see how “a world-saving plan” could imply that it was this specific plan, which it wasn’t.
I didn’t specify which small group was taking over the world, I didn’t mean to imply that it had to be MIRI specifically, maybe the comparison with Leverage led to that seeming like it was implied?
I still don’t understand how I’m misconstruing Eliezer’s tweets, it seems very clear to me that he’s saying something about how neural nets work would be very upsetting if learned about and I don’t see what else he could be saying.
Regarding Eliezer’s tweets, I think the issue is that he is joking about the “never stop screaming”. He is using humor to point at a true fact, that it’s really unfortunate how unreliable neural nets are, but he’s not actually saying that if you study neural nets until you understand them then you will have a psychotic break and never stop screaming.