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That's simply factually untrue, and even some of the people who have become apocalypse cultists used "alignment" in the original sense before coming to advocate
by dragonwriter 2y ago
That's simply factually untrue, and even some of the people who have become apocalypse cultists used "alignment" in the original sense before coming to advocate apocalypse as the only issue of concern.
- comp_throw7 2y agoThe term "alignment" was first coined in this context as a suggestion from Stuart Russell to MIRI, in 2014: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZxWzCGKzX84S7DBZ9/when-was-the-term-ai-alignment-coined?commentId=kFahR6wLZr35krNZ5 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZxWzCGKzX84S7DBZ9/when-was-t... Both, of course, are concerned primarily with the risk of human extinction from AI.