Yeah basically. I think “OK-ness” in the human psyche is a bit of a binary, which is uncorrelated with ones actions a lot of the time.
So you can imagine four quadrants of “Ok with dying” vs “Not Ok with dying” and, separately “Tries to avoid dying” vs “Doesn’t try to avoid dying”. Where most normies are in the “Ok with dying”+”Doesn’t try to avoid dying” (and quite a few are in the “Not Ok with dying”+”Doesn’t try to avoid dying” quadrant) while lots of rats are in the “Not Ok with dying”+”Tries to avoid dying” quadrant.
I think that, right now, most of the sane work being done is in the “Ok with dying”+”Tries to avoid dying” quadrant. I think Yudkowsky’s early efforts wanted to move people from “Doesn’t try...” to “Tries...” but did this by pulling on the “Ok...” to “Not Ok...” axis, and I think this had some pretty negative consequences.
Yeah basically. I think “OK-ness” in the human psyche is a bit of a binary, which is uncorrelated with ones actions a lot of the time.
So you can imagine four quadrants of “Ok with dying” vs “Not Ok with dying” and, separately “Tries to avoid dying” vs “Doesn’t try to avoid dying”. Where most normies are in the “Ok with dying”+”Doesn’t try to avoid dying” (and quite a few are in the “Not Ok with dying”+”Doesn’t try to avoid dying” quadrant) while lots of rats are in the “Not Ok with dying”+”Tries to avoid dying” quadrant.
I think that, right now, most of the sane work being done is in the “Ok with dying”+”Tries to avoid dying” quadrant. I think Yudkowsky’s early efforts wanted to move people from “Doesn’t try...” to “Tries...” but did this by pulling on the “Ok...” to “Not Ok...” axis, and I think this had some pretty negative consequences.