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Weird that there’s so much resistance to the importance of figuring out (philosophically, practically) how to align AI to human wishes. The problem is already

• 1270018080 4y ago
  Isn't AI aligned to human wishes right now? Hateful rage-baiting news took over television/radio pre-AI. I think most humans are just evil and want extremism and division. Tribalism is what makes humans human. Outsiders need to be put down. Maybe the AI is preying on our primate brains, but it's what we want.
  • JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
    This is overly pessimistic and cynical about humanity. I don’t remember people I met in the street being like this until recently and the social media division started and all the journalists and writers were fired and replaced by bots and reality television.
  • marvin 4y ago
    If you dig into the philosophy a bit, you'll see that there's a distinction between "what we've historically done" or "what we end up doing with a short term, egoistical focus", and "what we wish we would have wanted", "what we would want to do if there were fewer limitations". And to be sure, we don't understand this question well enough that it would be safe to commit humanity to our current ideas of the best solution for all eternity. But we are certain that we wouldn't want a future AI governor of Earth to regularly and randomly pick someone to torture to death, just because that is what human drives have led to historically.