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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 16 Nov 2017

      Reminder: if a 50-year-old man uses his power to pressure a reluctant 18-year-old woman into sex, the numbers 50 and 18 have literally... nothing... to... do... with why this is morally (or legally) wrong. Mrs. Grundy's salacious tut-tut about the woman's youth insults the woman.

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    2. Lev Reyzin‏ @lreyzin 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky

      There is a legal/illegal discontinuity at a certain age, but morality is more complicated.

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 16 Nov 2017
      Replying to @lreyzin

      If you think you know better than an 18-year-old who chooses of her own will and desire to proposition a 50-year-old man... maybe you're right. But anyone who looks to you to decide that is subordinating her decision to your supposedly greater wisdom about *her* life.

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        2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 16 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lreyzin

          It's true. There's no sharp cutoffs in reality. Some 16-year-olds are wise enough to make up their own minds, some 21-year-olds aren't. But it is *problematic* to try to pick and choose. Society drew a line and I think that may have been wise.

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        3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 16 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lreyzin

          Looking away from the nonconsent to tut-tut about the age difference implies you somehow know she couldn't have been some 50-year-old's equal and competent to start such a relationship on her own if she'd so chosen. That's trivializing her choices, and not at a good time.

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        2. mariellevolz‏ @mariellevolz 16 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lreyzin

          They're not orthogonal though. IFF there was no pressure, or if the 18 year old was the pursuer, then definitely. But pressure is exacerbated by age differential. Younger people lack practice saying "no" in no uncertain terms. Older people know how to coerce better!

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        3. mariellevolz‏ @mariellevolz 16 Nov 2017
          Replying to @mariellevolz @ESYudkowsky @lreyzin

          An acquaintance was coerced by her parents into marrying her first cousin at 19, in the UK. (She was married for a month and got a divorce.) Would they have been able to coerce her at 50 or even 30? Doubtful.

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