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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. Claire Berlinski‏Verified account @ClaireBerlinski 6 Dec 2017

      The Warlock Hunt https://wp.me/p4ja0Z-Kyw  via @aminterest I argue (contra Time), that the #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men.

      7 replies 56 retweets 99 likes
    2. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Jan 1
      Replying to @ClaireBerlinski @aminterest

      This was excellent writing and excellent thinking for the first 3/4, but I felt the article lost its way when you started asking "Why this moral panic?" All the explanations were terrible, and it sounded like you knew that. There is some randomness in history, a lack of... 1/

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Jan 1
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ClaireBerlinski @aminterest

      ...perfect and explicable pattern. If I were guessing I'd say that a continuously shifting parameter for how safe women felt to speak about actual sexual assault went over a criticality threshold where one public accusation against a Weinstein brought forth a cascade of... 2/

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    4. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Jan 1
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ClaireBerlinski @aminterest

      ...others. And then that real moral improvement, which I hope we hold on to, has a natural tendency to become a witch hunt as is very much baked into human nature. But there are some real warlocks loose; there weren't witches or Satanic child abusers. 3/

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    5. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Jan 1
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ClaireBerlinski @aminterest

      I think you said it implicitly, but it could stand to be made even more explicit: the problem is not cascading accusations of sexual assault. It's good we have those. The problem is that we can't be grownups about balancing mercy with deterrence when considering what might... 4/

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Jan 1
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @ClaireBerlinski @aminterest

      ...have been thought to have been flirting, but could be seen as degrading, as initiated by a man who wasn't perfectly unbiased about guessing that, but nobody's perfect, but we can't say that about every crime, but the rules were unwritten, but there can still be bastards etc.

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