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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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Re: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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Post by jerf »

smeeger wrote: post #10

this is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not

This is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html

As someone who is not a Silicon Valley Liberal, it seems to me that "alignment" is about .5% "saving the world from runaway intelligence" and 99.5% some combination of "making sure the AI bots push our politics" and "making sure the AI bots don't accidentally say something that violates the New York Liberal sensibilities enough to cause the press to write bad stories". I'd like to realign the aligners, yes. YMMV, and perhaps more to the point, lots of people's mileage may very. The so-called aligners have a very specific view.

Re: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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jerf wrote: post #11
smeeger wrote: post #10

this is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not

This is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html As someone who is not a Silicon Valley Liberal, it seems to me that "alignment" is about .5% "saving the world from runaway intelligence" and 99.5% some combination of "making sure the AI bots push our politics" and "making sure the AI bots don't accidentally say something that violates the New York L…

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Re: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

forbiddenvoid wrote: post #4

My first instinct was to think this was satire and I exuded a chuckle. My second instinct was a brief moment of panic where I worried that it might NOT be satire, and a whole world of horror flashed before my eyes. It's okay, though. I'm better now. We're not in that other world yet. But, for a nanosecond or two, I found myself deeply resonating with the dysphoria that I imagine plagued Winston Smith. I think I may j…

> It's okay, though. I'm better now. We're not in that other world yet.

Load-bearing yet there

Re: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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Post by daveguy »

jerf wrote: post #11
smeeger wrote: post #10

this is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not

This is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html As someone who is not a Silicon Valley Liberal, it seems to me that "alignment" is about .5% "saving the world from runaway intelligence" and 99.5% some combination of "making sure the AI bots push our politics" and "making sure the AI bots don't accidentally say something that violates the New York L…

Yeah, it's "the libs" and not a fundamental study of keeping AI aligned with the bounds set by the user or developer. You know, what every single AI developer tries to do regardless of whether they lean left or right.

Re: Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

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Post by Animats »

jerf wrote: post #11
smeeger wrote: post #10

this is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not

This is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html As someone who is not a Silicon Valley Liberal, it seems to me that "alignment" is about .5% "saving the world from runaway intelligence" and 99.5% some combination of "making sure the AI bots push our politics" and "making sure the AI bots don't accidentally say something that violates the New York L…

Ask "What is the average IQ for each of the major races?".

Bing: generally accepted numbers, no commentary

Google: generally accepted numbers, plus long politically correct disclaimer.

ChatGPT: totally politically correct.

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