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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 26 Aug 2017

    Another entry in the "But why worry about absolute and final ruin if self-driving cars?" campaign #TheLastDerailhttps://www.fastcodesign.com/90137818/dear-elon-forget-killer-robots-heres-what-you-should-really-worry-about …

    2:27 PM - 26 Aug 2017
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      2. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 27 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Silly and tendentious, to be sure, but progress towards safe AGI depends on developing workable ethics; attention to these issues will help.

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 27 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen

        The hard part of aligning the first AGI has little to do with the details of ethics. Or is that not what you meant?

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      4. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I'm not going to pretend I can pronounce on what the hard part is. But I can't imagine alignment having no ethics-like component, however.

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      5. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen @ESYudkowsky

        .. in the sense that ethics = restraint on / impetus to action.

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      6. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen @ESYudkowsky

        .. further, that human ethics are currently poorly founded and messily documented.

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      7. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen @ESYudkowsky

        .. and further, that engaging with AI ethics while we are slogging through the foothills (both our own ethics and modes of embedding them)..

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      8. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen @ESYudkowsky

        .. will be a valuable learning experience.

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      9. Dil Green Self Sovereign Data Commons Now!‏ @dilgreen 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @dilgreen @ESYudkowsky

        I am doing this: https://www.meetup.com/Project-for-a-Progressive-Ethics/ …, in part with the hope of doing this: https://www.meetup.com/Project-for-a-Progressive-Ethics/messages/boards/thread/50559923#130112746 …

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      1. Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️‏ @webdevMason 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Good rule of thumb: if you think "system designed to do a specific task," ML, AI, and AGI are all interchangeable, don't write to Elon Musk

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      2. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I'm fascinated by people who blithely say "thing X that smart people worry about can't happen" and they proceed on without justifying it.

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      3. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @perrymetzger @ESYudkowsky

        I suppose they're banking on the fact that most of their readers don't mind bold assertions without evidence.

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      1. Jason Seba‏ @jason_seba 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        It's amazing how many of these types of articles are written by people who clearly have no idea what the actual issues are

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      1. Adrian R. Smith‏ @adriansmithdev 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I feel like a true SSC classic is relevant here:http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/26/if-the-media-reported-on-other-dangers-like-it-does-ai-risk/ …

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      1. Scott Nickell‏ @Salvius23 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        "I, Robot was a farce of a book and a bad movie" Have you even read the book? It's not a cautionary tale about killer robots. At all.

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      2. LB‏ @shadowsiryn 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Yes, the article completely dismisses AI w/o support. Not actually seeing how it lines up with the "but self-driving cars" camp, tho.

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      3. LB‏ @shadowsiryn 28 Aug 2017
        Replying to @shadowsiryn @ESYudkowsky

        w/o inline support, that is. I haven't clicked amd can't speak to the content of the links. Still seems misrepresentive of the thesis, tho.

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      2. Singularitybooks‏ @Singularitybook 27 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Unbelievably arrogant tone of that essay, dunning Kruger at its best.

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      1. Sammy Martin‏ @SammyMartin39 27 Aug 2017
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      1. Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️‏ @webdevMason 26 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        She cited the great customer service at the DMV as something implausibly replicable by what she calls AI. So much nope in so few words

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