Fair.
Something something blackmailer is subjunctively dependent with the teacup! (This is a joke.)
No, they can't. See: "akrasia" on the path to protecting their hypothetical predicted future selves 30 years from now.
The teacup takes the W here too. It's indifferent to blackmail! [chad picture]
1I don't disagree with any of this.
And yet, some people seem to be generalizedly "better at things" than others. And I am more afraid of a broken human person (he might shoot me) than a broken teacup.
It is certainly possible that "intelligence" is a purely intrinsic property of my own mind, a way to measure "how much do I need to use the intentional stance to model another being, rather than model-based reductionism?" But this is still a fact about reality, since my mind exists in reality. And in that case "AI alignment" would still need to be a necessary field, because there are objects that have a larger minimal-complexity-to-express than the size of my mind, and I would want knowledge that allows me to approximate their behavior.
But I can't robustly define words like "intelligence" in a way that beats the teacup test. So overall I am unwilling to say "the entire field of AI Alignment is bunk because intelligence isn't a meaningful concept?" I just feel very confused.
This is one of the most morally powerful things you have ever written. Thanks.
This is actually completely fair. So is the other comment.
Thank you for echoing common sense!
Specific claim: the only nontrivial obstacle in front of us is not being evil
This is false. Object-level stuff is actually very hard.
Specific claim: nearly everyone in the aristocracy is agentically evil. (EDIT: THIS WAS NOT SAID. WE BASICALLY AGREE ON THIS SUBJECT.)
This is a wrong abstraction. Frame of Puppets seems naively correct to me, and has become increasingly reified by personal experience of more distant-to-my-group groups of people, to use a certain person's language. Ideas and institutions have the agency; they wear people like skin.
Specific claim: this is how to take over New York.
Didn't work.
This is how real-life humans talk.