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LessWronger wants AI safety to focus more on "controversial beliefs" (www.lesswrong.com)
submitted 7 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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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

Also I realize the word often get's used fuzzilly that way even in general, but I suspect what they mean is epistemology not ontology.

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