By "fully-defined affordances" I mean the basic building blocks of strategies for achieving the intended goal
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
All that said, I find that reformulating the catastrophe thought experiments to be about not being dumb is fun to think about
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
I get the impression the AI alignment people would basically agree; they're just trying to dereference "don't be stupid"
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Replying to @teleonomist @BagelDaughter
"stupid" from our perspective is "ruin everything for us"; "not stupid" is "make us happy"
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Replying to @teleonomist
yes, it's just that "stupid" is many more things than "ruin everything", and framing all the failure modes in terms of catastrophe
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
"stupid" is many different things, *which is why* it's important to distinguish them instead of pretending they're the same
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Replying to @Grognor
my argument is that none of the thought experiments I've seen have raised issues of "stupidity" that is uniquely catastrophic
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Replying to @BagelDaughter @Grognor
critique is that invoking catastrophe in the thought experiments I've seen is unnecessary to capture and explore the failure mode
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Replying to @Grognor
my experience with thinking through problems is that if I consider the stakes too early I can't think about it clearly enough
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actually this is one place where I diverge quite a lot from "canon" regarding infohazards. Have a hard time with that concept
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Replying to @BagelDaughter
it seems to me that most infohazards are game-theoretic (hence strategic ignorance) or emotionally sapping in some way
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Replying to @Grognor @BagelDaughter
the one that found its place as a metonym for how uncool rationalists are is both types
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