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LessWronger wants AI safety to focus more on "controversial beliefs" (www.lesswrong.com)
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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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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 16 hours ago

entirely through forced acquisition and, with notable exception of finland until late XIX century, with very aggressive russification policy.

austro-hungary (i.e post 1848) is a better example.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

plus, russian empire has a huge tradition of genocide as imperial policy (including, but not limited to, circassian genocide).

the conquest of other caucasian nations was almost as bad

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