I don’t think dath ilan would try to win points in likely universes by teaching children untrue things, which I claim is what they’re doing.
Also, it’s not clear to me that this would even win them points, because when thinking about designing civilisation (or AGIs) you need to have accurate beliefs about this type of thing. (E.g. imagine dath ilani alignment researchers being like “here are all our principles for understanding intelligence” and then continually being surprised, like Keltham is, about how messy and fractally unprincipled some plausible outcomes are.)
I don’t think dath ilan would try to win points in likely universes by teaching children untrue things, which I claim is what they’re doing.
Also, it’s not clear to me that this would even win them points, because when thinking about designing civilisation (or AGIs) you need to have accurate beliefs about this type of thing. (E.g. imagine dath ilani alignment researchers being like “here are all our principles for understanding intelligence” and then continually being surprised, like Keltham is, about how messy and fractally unprincipled some plausible outcomes are.)