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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
- runflyswim 1y ago[dead]
- cs702 1y agoVery funny, because it is true: > Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners? I love how this fake organization describes itself: > We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums ... > Fiercely independent, we are backed by philanthropic funding from some of the world's biggest AI companies who also form a majority on our board. > This year, we interfaced successfully with one member of the public ... > 250,000 AI agents and 3 humans read our newsletter The whole thing had me chuckling. Thanks for sharing it on HN.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoI particularly like the countdown clock to the next prediction of AGI!
- jaredklewis 1y agoThe venn-diagram-like figure on the mission page is just...chef's kiss.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y ago"No I didn't get the memo about the new TPS cover sheets. Is that a problem?" <spins up drone>
- wer232essf 1y ago[dead]
- throwawayqqq11 1y ago> However, there are reasons for optimism. We believe that humanity is approaching an AI alignment center singularity, where all alignment centers will eventually coalesce into a single self-reinforcing center that will finally possess the power to solve the alignment problem.
- GolfPopper 1y agoI eagerly await the announcement of the Center Alignment for Centers for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoWhy? You can make it yourself in less than 60 seconds with their CenterGen-4o!
- Brajeshwar 1y agoReminds me of the quote from Enemy of the State (1998), “Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?”
- forbiddenvoid 1y agoMy 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 just need to sit with that for a while.
- drivingmenuts 1y agoLike you, I had a few moments where I couldn’t figure out if it was satire or not. I finally went with: not my circus, not my monkeys.
- ToucanLoucan 1y ago> It's okay, though. I'm better now. We're not in that other world yet. Load-bearing yet there
- thisisauserid 1y agoDepartment of Redundancy Department (please knock twice please)
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoThis in response to things like this Care Bears wackiness? https://www.alignmentbears.com/ https://www.alignmentbears.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204694)
- kridsdale1 1y agoEffective Altruist people are insufferably self-satirizing on their own. They can’t resist navel gazing on AI instead of doing things that actually help people incrementally today. I think this is satire of that.
- impure 1y agoI actually have a game idea playing around with this idea. Sure, the AI is 'aligned' but what does that even mean? Because if you think about it humans have been pretty terrible.
- antonvs 1y agoAbsolutely. The reason people worry about AI alignment is because we already have millennia of experience with the intractability of human alignment. So the concern is, what if AI is as bad as we are, but more effective at it?
- throwawayqqq11 1y agoThe tech billionaire answer: "Please dont let it be woke". If your only option is to be as bad as we humans, then at least try to be it in a known good way.
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- smeeger 1y agothis is people thinking they are dunking on AI skeptics/doomers but in reality not
- jerf 1y agoThis is very much in the Ha Ha Only Serious vein of humor: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html 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.
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- daveguy 1y agoYeah, 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.
- Animats 1y agoAsk "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.
- viraptor 1y agoTo be fair, this is a "if you're asking this question, you either know where to find papers that deal with this the right way, or you're asking the wrong question" situation. It matches what I'd tell someone personally: the answer is very unlikely to be useful, what do you actually want to know? AI that gives you the exact thing you ask for even if it's a bad question in the first place is not a great thing. You'll end up with a "monkey paw AI" and you'll sabotage yourself by accident.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoLet’s start the Alignment Excellence Center.
- stockresearcher 1y agoThe HQ is out west near Hawtch-Hawtch, but they primarily do field work.
- dpflan 1y agoObligatory meme allusion: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- rf15 1y agoHow do I donate?
- a3w 1y agoForm 38a, but you have to be a teapot to qualify for tax cuts, except on the sixth sunday each month.
- aanet 1y agoThis is some expert level trolling. Too funny. Thank AGI, somebody's finally 'lining up the aligners.. The EA'ers, the LessWrong'ers, the X-risk'ers, the AI-Safety'ers, ... https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/explainer-alignment https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/explainer-alignment
- rossant 1y ago> This year we reached a significant milestone: > We successfully interacted with a member of the public. > Because our corporate Uber was in the process of being set up, we had to take a public bus. On that bus, we overheard a man talking about AI on the phone. > "I don't know," he said. "All the safety stuff seems like a load of bullshit if you ask me. But who cares what I think? These tech bros are going to make it anyway." > He then looked over in our direction, giving us an opportunity to shrug and pull a face. > He resumed his conversation. > We look forward to more opportunities to interact with members of the public in 2026!
- mjamesaustin 1y ago"Subscribe unless you want all humans dead forever" made me laugh out loud.
- halgir 1y agoBut who will the align the aligner of aligners? :(
- imtringued 1y agohttps://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/jobs https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/jobs
- franky47 1y agoI don't know if it's intended (and if so, hat tip to the designer), but the logo is not aligned: the arrows should form an X in negative space, but the horizontal distance between the left & right arrows is smaller than the vertical distance between the top & bottom ones.
- antonvs 1y agoI'm going to believe that's intentional and bask in its brilliance.
- layer8 1y agoClearly we need a decentralized version of that.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoKind of like when air-conditioned cars started getting popular in the 1970's. People wanted a full "factory air" conditioned car from a fully factory air-conditioned factory . . . I expect Mr. Tirebiter wouldn't settle for less ;)
- jakubmazanec 1y agoFew years ago I argued we need a comparison site for insurance comparison sites. But soon there would be more than one and we would have to compare those, and so on...
- rf15 1y agoI tried to apply, but all I got was the shoddy 4k remaster of my favourite song
- wtbdbrrr 1y agoPonzi's going all out, huh? Unbelievable ... You don't need alignment if you don't go all the way to super-intelligence aka free intelligence. And since nobody is gonna let that happen ever, #mass_surveillance, nobody needs alignment. So all these centers and centers of centers are just more opportunities to sell hardware and take away actually necessary jobs. Like two different commissions in one Bundesland to assess whether the measures during the corona pandemic were "xyz". JAAA. NEEEIN. I would say gg, Ponzi, but you are not a winner or an authority if you beat the shit out of and poison pups and think you're a champ when you keep them in cages once they grow up. This is all so weird. What the fuck xD
- pona-a 1y agoThis is a satire site. That doesn't make what it's based on any less weird.
- maxekman 1y agoVery Severence-ish name.