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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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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 Mar 24

    Sometimes I do take personally the fact that people remain imperfect *even after they've read my stuff*, like, what is wrong with my writing skills

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      2.  🤖‏ @ramriot Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Nobody's perfect, but then who strives to be a nobody.

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Mar 24
        Replying to @ramriot

        Or as I've been known to put it, "It's okay to be imperfect, just not so imperfect that even other people notice."

        1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
      4.  🤖‏ @ramriot Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I try to keep an open mind on such things, just not so open that the wind whistles through the gap.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Mar 24
        Replying to @ramriot

        Well, you know the old saying, "*You* are the only common denominator in all of your failed relationships." If you teach one person and they're still not perfect, it could be their fault, but if you teach many people and they're still not perfect, it must be your own fault.

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      6.  🤖‏ @ramriot Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I never make such assumptions as they require me to assume first that my perceptions are relating to reality & not a contrived narrative. I find no convincing evidence that differentiates the two. If it feels down to Occam's razor I'd grow a beard.

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      1. Bridgett Kay‏ @bkkawaii Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Listen- it's helped, but to really make any headway you'd have to live in my brain for a while, and I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone.

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      1. Metaist‏ @TheMetaist Mar 25
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I parsed this as "Why can't I craft packets that inject new behaviors in people's brains when read?" I guess it needs more buffer overflow? Or not; your stuff is usually pretty long. #debugging

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      1. telospolis‏ @telospolis Mar 24
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        knowing and doing is not the same thing.

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      1. Empiricist‏ @EmpiricistGSV Mar 24
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        Didn't you write about how hard it is to change your mind and habits?

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      1. Faun of Foggy Hollow‏ @makoConstruct Mar 24
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        Your critics definitely agree, holding you partially responsible every time one of your readers does anything wrong. Even if you tried to tell them not to do that thing, obviously you weren't clear enough and it's still your fault.

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      1. Tristan Miano‏ @TristanMiano Mar 24
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        Hey, at least you didn't transmit your writings through a hundred different prophets at first.

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      2. Shawn Willden‏ @shawnwillden Mar 25
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        The important question is whether you've read your writings carefully enough to achieve perfection yourself.

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      1. Carlos Serrano‏ @carturo222 Mar 27
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        One problem is that not everybody has the same self-analyzing skills. A bigger problem is that not everybody is under the type of life circumstances that allow for self-improvement.

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      1. Azeem‏ @azijira_ Mar 25
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        Define perfect

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      1. DLW‏ @dlwjiang Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Resonance increases within curated groups. Though downside is the echoe chamber produced. Not really an issue though. Focus on reaching critical mass for a primary group and let secondary reactions do the rest of the work.

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      1. Noël Lepère‏ @VertLepere Mar 24
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        akrasia!

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      1. I just emailed you‏ @QuantumMagi Mar 24
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        The error could be occurring on the reading side. Possibly, be less clear, plain truth is confusing!

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      1. Chris Bredesen‏ @cbredesen Mar 24
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        What's wrong is that you're writing for humans. Silly rationalist!

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