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I own a few scholarly texts from india about temple architecture. Despite their best efforts, the authors can’t help themselves but describe mythology (surrounding temples, religion etc) as if it were history.
Hinduism is also very amorphous and culture and regional norms greatly overlaps with what constitutes the actual religious system - and this makes secular taxonomy very hard. At least it makes it inaccessible.
What I find “rationalist” about this essay is that it attempts to offer a secular taxonomy, and attempts to overcome very common mistakes (like conflating mythology with history).
I can think of one situation where pulling the levers would be more 'good' than 'bad'.
Estimate each of their future influence on others - both span and depth. If you consider it 'high', then pull the lever. If you consider it 'low' (which might further correlate with lower IQ), then (tentatively) hold off.
Tl;dr - We must enlist and educate professional politicians, reporters and policymakers to talk about alignment.
This interaction between Peter Doocy and Karine Jean-Pierre (YouTube link below) is representative of how EY’s time article has been received in many circles.
I see a few broad fronts of concern in LLM’s.
Of these, alignment is likely the most important (at least in my opinion - on this point opinions seem to genuinely vary) and has had a very long long intellectual effort behind it, and yet recent discourse has framed it often as if... (read more)