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What do we want AI to align to?

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I want to write on the potentially important problems AI Alignment may fail to solve—or even create—which the alignment community has largely ignored. There is too much BS in AI alignment, I will not focus on far-fetched scenarios like a malevolent AI dominating humanity. Of course, my arguments might become irrelevant in the face of a perfect, “ultimate” AI. But we can’t just wave our hands and defer all of today’s problems to some hypothetical future intelligence. We live in the here and now.

A meaningless way to make abstraction

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On the treacherous mountain roads of Yosemite, where a single misstep could send a car plunging into the valley below, I found myself unable to concentrate on driving. My mind was utterly consumed by one sentence. Even now, my mind keeps returning to a phrase I saw on the placard next to Roy Lichtenstein’s Imperfect Painting at The Broad museum: “a meaningless way to make abstraction.” The phrase resonated with me so deeply it made my heart race, echoing in my mind. I couldn’t believe that a problem I had been grappling with for the past year could be described so precisely.

Advise and Be Advised

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(This post is translated to English by ChatGPT from Chinese version)

Future Blog Post

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Blog Post number 1

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This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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