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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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    Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 17 Aug 2017

    Maybe it's time for us to ask: should we take down all the statues? Are they doing us any good?

    4:15 AM - 17 Aug 2017
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      2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Let's face it: the past was a terrible, awful, immoral place. Maybe we should only have statues in honor of the future.

        20 replies 41 retweets 157 likes
      3. Anders Sandberg‏ @anderssandberg 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I suggest statues to commemorate mistakes so we can remember them. Some people are condemned to have a statue, torn down after sentence.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
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      2. Will Gilpin‏ @willgilpin 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        The problem is clearly that we insist on teaching history

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @willgilpin

        You can learn the history of WWII without putting up Hitler statues...

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Will Gilpin‏ @willgilpin 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        You put up statues to people who [you] admire. Of course admiration changes over time. Maybe a graveyard / museum for the unperson

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Will Gilpin‏ @willgilpin 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @willgilpin @ESYudkowsky

        I'd be interested to see Soviet era statues of their figures. Don't need to admire them to have historical interest. But not in public.

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      1. Tom Keller‏ @timrinaldo 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        On govt property, up to the locals. On pvt property, nobody's business.

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      1. Dustin Seth‏ @Dustinseth 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I think an emphatic "who cares?" Is the most rational response to the question of taking down statues.

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      1. Eschatomaton‏ @iexline 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        If only we could figure out some way to teach history that doesn't involve venerating racist traitors.

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      1. Jim Russell‏ @realjimrussell 17 Aug 2017
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        Tear down the pyramids, the parthenon, the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge. They don't represent our values.

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      1. Massacre À La Dent-çonneuse‏ @al_lad 17 Aug 2017
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        If we did this right now it would send an ambiguous message :"All this woes are equal", said as we take down a MLK statue and a Jim crow one

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      1. Will Gilpin‏ @willgilpin 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        ditto college names, town names, road names, names scholarships, in fact anything named after someone. So much to erase. Maybe number them

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      1. FakerFangirl‏ @FakerFangirl 17 Aug 2017
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        #AztecTemples

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