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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. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @consultify @breemeup @staeiou

      No, I haven't studied Rawls before, but it sounds like he's invoking (or requiring) a "Right to Anonymity" and we've been grappling with that concept since the mid 60's. Which is, uh, about five years before his proposal. You've heard of Anonymous, I assume?

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    2. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @consultify and

      Oh, OK. It's a "thought experiment". Some principles ARE definitely encoded into modern practice (eg: "de-identification" in EU Data Retention laws) but his basic premise is impossible in our surveillance-heavy world. Govt. knows who you are, and we all know our place in society.

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    3. Thoroughly henpecked pajama boy‏ @consultify 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @breemeup @staeiou

      I know enough about database queries to know that they are always highly selective. The veil of ignorance is just about making sure that things like ethnicity, gender and faith are not part of the selection criteria determining who gets what.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    4. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @consultify @breemeup @staeiou

      Then you don't know enough about data mining, because those dimensions can always be (statistically) reconstituted through other metrics (where you live, income, interests) if you're unscrupulous. OTOH I'm all for "anti-discrimination" laws that depend on transparency.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @consultify and

      I understand the principle - Justice should be blind - and I agree. But justice _isn't_ blind (well, perhaps selectively) she never was, and pretending it's so has caused endless problems in reality. Especially trying to fix those problems, because it gave them cover.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    6. Thoroughly henpecked pajama boy‏ @consultify 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @breemeup @staeiou

      Yes Justice is complicated and difficult, hence your facile demand for a definition of fairness. But the mere fact that we can't seem to get it right should prompt us to try harder, not stop us from trying.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @consultify @breemeup @staeiou

      That was exactly my point. We have all these amazing new tools, we have an opportunity to do better. Humans and machines, correcting each other biases in a messy world. And I was _not_ being facile about the definition of fairness. If you can't define it, you can't create it.

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    8. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @consultify and

      It doesn't have to be a simple definition, it can be a thousand pages based on the works of Hume and Kant and Rawls. But the first step to improving anything is being able to measure it, otherwise you can't determine if your "improvements" are working.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    9. JediJeremyJuice 🎃‏ @JediJeremy 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @consultify and

      This is what I mean when I talk about the eye-rolling disconnect between the disciplines. When we ask for a definition of fairness, you think we're joking. We don't get any useful answers, and we're left to make it up as we go along. Then you blame us.

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    10. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @JediJeremy @consultify and

      Well. Flipping. Put. This is the spirit in which I devised the notion of Friendly AI, and the parts of academia departing from it to wring their hands about the unsolvability of trolley problems will never produce anything useful.

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @JediJeremy and

      You might be entertained by http://arbital.com/p/cev . It's what I came up with to answer all the unanswerable questions in AGI ethics back in 2004, so we could move on to harder problems like how to get a superintelligence to do literally anything without destroying the universe.

      10:12 AM - 16 Nov 2017
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        1. Thoroughly henpecked pajama boy‏ @consultify 16 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @JediJeremy and

          It's hard for many people to get interested in the control problem, including engineers, yes? In general, no one wants to confront the possibility that their children might try to kill them.

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