I largely agree, though of course even human language use leaves many subtle nuances of words like “flourishing” underspecified.
If anything, language seems more useful than other modalities for learning about how the real world works. E.g., current video models completely fail to grasp basic physical intuitions that text-davinci-003 nails just fine.
Yeah, but that’s because we don’t have a unified concept of flourishing. There’s probably an intersection of popular flourishing concepts or “the minimal latents of flourishing”, etc. but “flourishing” does mean different things to different people.
That’s why I think paretopia is a better goal than utopia.
(Pareto improvements that everyone can get behind.)
I largely agree, though of course even human language use leaves many subtle nuances of words like “flourishing” underspecified.
If anything, language seems more useful than other modalities for learning about how the real world works. E.g., current video models completely fail to grasp basic physical intuitions that text-davinci-003 nails just fine.
Yeah, but that’s because we don’t have a unified concept of flourishing. There’s probably an intersection of popular flourishing concepts or “the minimal latents of flourishing”, etc. but “flourishing” does mean different things to different people.
That’s why I think paretopia is a better goal than utopia.
(Pareto improvements that everyone can get behind.)