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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 Apr 1

    "I'm sorry" doesn't undo the past, but it conveys important information about current state of mind. It has the failure mode of being intended to say, or being heard as saying, "I assert what I did wasn't too bad and can be fixed with a simple apology, so now forgive me."

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      1. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Apr 1

        Possible untried experimental substitutes: "I'm sorry, please tell me how bad you think it was." "I'm sorry, I'll try not to do any further damage while I continue fixing things." "I'm sorry, I've hurt you in a way I can't undo and that creates a debt which I acknowledge."

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      1. Anna Gát‏ @TheAnnaGat Apr 1
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        Or rather "I know it can't be fixed with a simple sorry, but let me try".

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      1. Jean De Carvalho‏ @Carvalho96v2 Apr 1
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        Meeeh sounds like a sociopathic definition of an apology. Ideally it would mean that "I acknowledge that what I did was wrong, and I regret doing it", generally a genuine apology isn't made with the intention of being forgiven but more to convey the regret.

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      1. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Apr 1
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        And not saying it has the failure mode of people interpreting the silence as “I assert what I did wasn’t bad at all and does not need to be fixed.”

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      1. l__ds‏ @l__ds Apr 18
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        Promising results (n=2) for "I'm sorry, I did X and ought to have done Y. Can you forgive me?", with possible responses being "I forgive you", "I don't hold it against you", "I don't feel able to just yet", "Can we clarify X/Y?", "Can we talk about a larger X-Y pattern?".

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      1. Kuiper‏ @justkuiper Apr 2
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        A good apology conveys three things: 1. What we did was wrong 2. Here is what we are doing to fix it/make things right 3. Here's what we are doing to prevent it from happening again

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