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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    1. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 31

      I see nothing the AI field can collectively do about this. But AI would still have a better reputation in the impossible world where businesses waited an extra 2 years to replace humans with AIs, or until the robots delivered better customer experiences and not just cheaper ones.

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    2. Scott Greenberg‏ @ScottElliotG May 31
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky

      Isn't it good for several of MIRI's goals if AI has a bad public reputation?

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    3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 31
      Replying to @ScottElliotG

      I presently read MIRI's goals as unrelated to public opinion variance inside the Overton Window. Everything in that range is equally useless; nothing in it corresponds to policies unusual enough to result in non-default outcomes.

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    4. Scott Greenberg‏ @ScottElliotG May 31
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky

      Doesn't AI having a negative halo effect at least improve your ability to fundraise?

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 31
      Replying to @ScottElliotG

      I don't get the impression that's been the case. People who are scared of marching robots with glowing red eyes are rarely precise-enough thinkers to take a precisely productive action that is more expensive than ranting on Twitter and not as emotionally fun.

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        2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 31
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ScottElliotG

          If you think that a hiccuping Doordash delivery is a Harbinger of the AGI Apocalypse (rather than totally unrelated), you're also liable to be impressed by "relevant" work involving sexy gradient descent tech that flails in the direction of something vaguely alignment-sounding.

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        3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 31
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ScottElliotG

          In my experience, all imprecise thinking is the enemy of all precise thinkers advocating precise policies. Once you depart the narrow path, there is always somebody who looks sexier, cooler, easier, more rewarding, because they left the narrow path to optimize just for that.

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        4. Scott Greenberg‏ @ScottElliotG May 31
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          That's fair. All I'll say, anecdotally, is that I've donated to ex-risk organizations in the past, and I wouldn't put it past myself to donate more on a particular day if I've recently had an experience that caused a negative mood affiliation with AI.

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        5. Scott Greenberg‏ @ScottElliotG May 31
          Replying to @ScottElliotG @ESYudkowsky

          And I presume that MIRI's other donors aren't immune from all of the usual cognitive biases that would cause them to donate less or more

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        1. Thomas Schmidt‏ @Highres_BN Jun 1
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ScottElliotG

          I do not agree. It isn‘t that simple and most of people who have concerns know, that it is not the robot-with-red-eyes-scenario, what matters. They think more detailed and with knowledge about risks and they ask, if the humanity really need strong AI to make live better.

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