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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 22 Oct 2017

      Eliezer Yudkowsky Retweeted Geoffrey Miller

      #UnpopularOpinion: Unavoidable ignorance of a law, because your society has too many laws to learn, is a defense.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922139323457200128 …

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      Geoffrey MillerVerified account @primalpoly
      Canada decides that ignorance of the law makes it OK to inflict multiple felony sexual assaults on a woman. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-41699245 …
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    2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      A healthy society has few enough laws that you can be told all of the ones that apply to you. This couple should have been able to learn.../

      3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
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    3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      ...all the relevant laws applying to them as a married couple, on immigrating. You cannot expect people to reinvent all of morality... 2/

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    4. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      ...on their own. You could not take somebody out of the Bronze Age, wait for them to do something evil, and then pounce, while calling... 3/

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    5. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      ...yourself a good person, possessed of empathy and perspective. You couldn’t pass that test if the Future seized you and ran it on you.

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    6. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      Let’s be clear: the attacker was missing a spark of goodness that could let him guess by himself that a scream meant something wrong... 5/

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

      ...but it cannot be the business of Society to bust people for lacking sparks of moral intuition! Society has to tell you what the laws are!

      10:27 AM - 22 Oct 2017
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        2. Machine Moralities‏ @MachineMorality 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Not society, the state.

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        3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @MachineMorality

          I actually do mean society. I have the greatest respect for those with sparks of goodness that lead to de novo unguided moral progress...

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @MachineMorality

          ...but I don’t expect it of everyone. *Society,* not just the State, has a responsibility to make knowable what it thinks is good.

          0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        2. (((Joshua Ishal)))‏ @DentalJosh 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Your Judaism is showing.

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        3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @DentalJosh

          ...I guess I have to plead 110% guilty on that one.

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        4. Noah Topper‏ @NoahTopper 25 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @DentalJosh

          I'm not Jewish at all, and I think I agree with your view here.

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        5. (((Joshua Ishal)))‏ @DentalJosh 26 Oct 2017
          Replying to @NoahTopper @ESYudkowsky

          Indeed, Noah was not Jewish, still a righteous man in his times.

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        1. Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️‏ @webdevMason 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          FWIW I think the "stop, you're hurting them" spark is one of the things that modern societies systematically disable in children.

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        1. Yulia Kovas‏ @Yuliabreen 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Don't open your borders to large amounts of people who need sparks of moral intuition to realise that assaulting women is wrong.

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        1. Yulia Kovas‏ @Yuliabreen 22 Oct 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Sam Harris is smarter than you if you're being serious. It will bring our justice system to halt if anyone can claim ignorance of law. etc

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