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LessWronger wants AI safety to focus more on "controversial beliefs" (www.lesswrong.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Richard Ngo (rationalist circle-jerker and former employee of DeepMind and OpenAI) has finally identified the key problem that AI safety people won't address: it won't engage honestly with taboos.

More specifically, AI safety people are failing to acknowledge how much brown people suck. And if AI people can't acknowledge controversial and obvious truths such as this, what's going to happen with their LLMs?

Even Scoot, the bravest of the brave truth-tellers, is so fearful of being tarred a racist that he covers his actual beliefs about black people in jokes and irony.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I have bad news for them about how German Austrians felt when suddenly their bosses were all Preuße.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wasn't the Anschluss greeted with rapture by many Austrians? Ofc they thought they'd be runnign the show there afterwards...

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Many liked the idea in theory (the Führer was Austrian after all). They pretty quickly found that a Tiroler was not the same as a Prussian at all. Its easier to feel part of an imagined community than to actually work with people all over that community.

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