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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 May 19

      Don't settle for somebody who only values you because they've learned specific information about you that updated their priors. Find somebody who loves you unconditionally.

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 20

      People. This, too, is a joke. It is a joke because the Bayesian process of updating based on evidence involves "conditioning" probability distributions. An unconditioned prior about you looks like a featureless blank template. Do not seek someone who loves you unconditionedly.

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        2. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck May 20
          Replying to @JohnRural @ESYudkowsky

          Because they then love you before knowing anything about you. They don’t really love *you* at all.

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        4. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck May 20
          Replying to @JohnRural @ESYudkowsky

          Unconditional would also mean “if you tried to kill them”, “if one day and were a completely different person”, and “if you were actually a strawberry”. It’s possible to love everyone and everything, but this cannot be the basis of a relationship with a specific person.

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        5. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky May 23
          Replying to @daniel_houck @JohnRural

          Only love somebody who would have loved you even if you'd been a strawberry.

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        1. P. T.‏ @pixeltrancer May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          You missed your calling as a Bayesian probability comedian.

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        1. Clint Ehrlich‏ @ClintEhrlich May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          False. An "unconditioned prior about you" ≠ "featureless blank template," since it's mapped to an identity. In romance, identity isn't an adequate predicate for love, but it can be in contexts like parenting.

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        1. Zed Burnett‏ @chophshiy May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          The fact that people who follow *you* needed this to be explained...

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        2. ShillinconValley‏ @shillincon Jun 4
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          This is terrible advice. Love is fundamentally a placement of the person you love into the loved one category once sufficient interactions with that person have met one’s personal threshold for entry.

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        3. ShillinconValley‏ @shillincon Jun 4
          Replying to @shillincon @ESYudkowsky

          There’s is no way to update your priors in any fair non-biased way when it comes to love-relationships that will actually deliver the usual desired outcomes: loyalty, intimacy, longevity of relationship.

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        4. ShillinconValley‏ @shillincon Jun 4
          Replying to @shillincon @ESYudkowsky

          The attempt to do so reveals a level of autism that will all but guarantee misery for most people.

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        1. voltpathDOTca‏ @voltpathDOTca May 21
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          there's actually a problem if someone other than your mom says they'll love you unconditionally- in that person's own mind, they do. reminds me of the Futurama episode where Bender has a Neutron(?) bomb inside of him, that'll go off if he says a certain word that he's never used

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        1. prior probability‏ @lawscholar May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          What about the “common prior assumption” in economics? It’s wrong, right?

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        1. Jamie Ridyard‏ @JamieRidyard May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          I'm not sure if this isn't deeper than you intended I get the Bayesian word play about conditioning But the idea that love is refined over time based on new evidence gives me the creeps I prefer unconditional love, in both senses

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        1. Big William‏ @Nonparametric0 May 20
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          still haven’t figured this one out it seems

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        1. Samuel Knoche‏ @SamuelKnoche May 20
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          I'm relieved to hear this 😄

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