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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 May 2

    My position on metaethics in a nutshell: Them: Ah, but what do you mean by "Friendly"? Me: Pal, I'm not going to let you get turned into paperclips because you couldn't figure out how to make words mean things.

    10:57 PM - 2 May 2018
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      1. Everything in Coherence‏ @allcoherent May 2
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Yep - too true. It’s this hopeless reasoning that made the world optimise for GDP rather than healthiness and happiness.

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      1. bucket of kets‏ @bucketofkets May 2
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        Instructions unclear, am now made of paperclips

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      2. Ashwin‏ @omnishwin May 2
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Hey EY. I think you should use the Elon Musk example of how AI can go wrong. (i.e. the AI programmed to rid us of spam does so by killing all humans). While the paperclip example is awesome, spam is something people see more easily as a problem. I suspect it'll stick better.

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      3. Andy Brice‏ @andybrice May 3
        Replying to @omnishwin @ESYudkowsky

        Robert Miles @robertskmiles has a great example of a stamp collecting machine which first starts committing fraud, and eventual tries to enslave people.

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      2. Evan O'Leary‏ @EvanOLeary May 2
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        So not a position on which metaethical view is best, but a position on what resources should be devoted to studying metaethics? And your view is simply annoyance that people won't give you a pass on that, because you think metaethics is unimportant to FAI for other reasons?

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      3. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz May 2
        Replying to @EvanOLeary @ESYudkowsky

        Nope, he is just annoyed that some people don't see his little but well reasoned pet peeve that AI is probably going to eat us because it is outside of their socially constructed window of sanity. (He also appears to somehow see a self evidence that AI eating us would be bad.)

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      4. Evan O'Leary‏ @EvanOLeary May 3
        Replying to @Plinz @ESYudkowsky

        Well yes, but his wanting the paperclip type errors not to happen doesn't seem to me to constitute a meta-ethical view.

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      5. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz May 3
        Replying to @EvanOLeary @ESYudkowsky

        In a way, the universe is already turning into paperclips. Why is it bad if evolution produces a series of events that changes the design of these clips, and what is the meta ethics that can provide that result? (Eliezer’s take on meta ethics is cute snark here.)

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      6. Evan O'Leary‏ @EvanOLeary May 4
        Replying to @Plinz @ESYudkowsky

        Ah so meta ethics can't help solve the problem of distinguishing paperclip-like from non-paperclip-like futures, so that we could design non-paperclip-like ones? But I don't see why it can't. I wish he would have provided an argument.

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      7. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz May 4
        Replying to @EvanOLeary @ESYudkowsky

        Hey, it's Twitter. Perhaps it is reasonable to expect that Eliezer prefers to use it as a dumping ground for his jokes (and this was a good one!) rather than his journal articles.

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      8. Evan O'Leary‏ @EvanOLeary May 4
        Replying to @Plinz @ESYudkowsky

        Ah well.

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      1. Max Prizeman‏ @MaxPrizeman May 5
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Eliezer I find you very interesting but I barely understand you hah

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      1. Noah Topper‏ @NoahTopper May 3
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        This tweet is good and you should feel good.

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      1. Turkkilainen‏ @Turkkilainen May 3
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        How are you going to explain to the AI what it means if you can't even make a person understand the meaning?

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      1. gabraham drinkin'‏ @gabrielundrigan May 2
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        The goatee. Why.

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