Eliezer has a lot to answer for when it comes to encouraging magical thinking along the lines of “all (subsets of) humans have the same Coherent Extrapolated Volition”. He may not be confused himself but his document certainly encourages it.
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Clearly both past humans and current humans aren’t effectively optimising toward their respective CEVs. But those CEVs are also going to be different because there isn’t any magic (or focused expenditure of optimisation power) holding the CEV constant!
It would be great if you wrote up a short discussion level post to clear up what seems to be a common misconception. Please consider doing so.
It would be great if you wrote up a short discussion level post to clear up what seems to be a common misconception. Please consider doing so.
I’m not sure how useful that would be, or rather whether I’m the right person to be doing it. I thought I said everything that needed to be said in this thread already but it wasn’t necessarily successful at reaching the target audience. Perhaps someone more in tune with the idealism behind the disagreement could explain better.
It would be great if you wrote up a short discussion level post to clear up what seems to be a common misconception. Please consider doing so.
I’m not sure how useful that would be, or rather whether I’m the right person to be doing it. I thought I said everything that needed to be said in this thread already but it wasn’t necessarily successful at reaching the target audience. Perhaps someone more in tune with the idealism behind the disagreement could explain better.