One of the recurring errors made by people who build things is the assumption that everyone else is engaged in the same basic enterprise. The engineer sees a defective system and asks how it can be repaired; the activist often sees the same defect and asks what moral significance can be extracted from it, who…
Tag: Alignment
Fifteen Years of AI Alignment
AI alignment has been around for about fifteen years now, which is a respectable amount of time for a serious intellectual project. Fifteen years is enough time to raise a child who already believes you know nothing, and several billion dollars is enough money that you might reasonably expect, by the end of it, to…