6nne

Could someone explain exactly what "make AI alignment seem legit” means in this thread? I’m having trouble understanding from context.

1. “Convince people building AI to utilize AI alignment research”?
2. “Make the field of AI alignment look serious/professional/high-status”?
3. “Make it look like your own alignment work is worthy of resources”?
4. “Make it look like you’re making alignment progress even if you’re not”?

A mix of these? Something else?

Given the way you wrote this, it sounds like you're using the word "polycule" to mean something like "a group of people who are all dating all of each other." I've recently heard a few people use the word "polycule" as if this is the definition.

But, uh, I've been polyamorous for 8 years, and I've literally never heard of this happening. The closest thing I've seen is a triad, in which a group of three people are all dating each other, but that's quite rare and often isn't very stable. (Newly-nonmonogamous married couples sometimes explicitly seek out a bis... (read more)