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#alignment

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There is no #AI #alignment problem. There is a people & business alignment problem.

There is a willfull choice of routing all research into the most potentially destructive form of machine learning, because it gives the highest business incentives, not the best result.

The current approach will damage the environment, requires people to lose their privacy, for copyright to be cancelled, entry-level jobs to disappear, and further separate us to haves & have-nots.

And it won’t even deliver.

Nothing annoys me more than tired as shit little tic tac toe boards for moral cosplayers like the #Alignment chart. Little more than ethical kindergarten:

#LawfulGood: Hall monitor with a messiah complex
They follow the rules like they're commandments carved by God himself. Usually a white dude named Gary. Believes in justice, fairness, & helping others. Adorable till you realize they'll let a village burn cuz the permit for intervention wasn't notarized.