So it turns out I’m just too stupid for this high level critique. I’m only used to ones where you directly reference the content of the thing you’re asserting is tragically flawed. In order to get across to less sophisticated people like me in the future, my advice is to independently figure out how this “memetic influence” got into the sequences and then just directly refute whatever content it tainted. Otherwise us brainlets won’t be able to figure out which part of the sequences to label “not true” due to memetic influence, and won’t know if your disagreements are real or made up for contrarianism’s sake.
I think you reading way too much into the specific questionable wording of “tragically flawed”. By that I meant that they are flawed in some of the key background assumptions, how that influences thinking on AI risk/alignment, and the consequent system wide effects. I didn’t mean they are flawed at their surface level purpose—as rationalist self help and community foundations. They are very well written and concentrate a large amount of modern wisdom. But that of course isn’t the full reason for why EY wrote them: they are part of a training funnel to produce alignment researchers.
So it turns out I’m just too stupid for this high level critique. I’m only used to ones where you directly reference the content of the thing you’re asserting is tragically flawed. In order to get across to less sophisticated people like me in the future, my advice is to independently figure out how this “memetic influence” got into the sequences and then just directly refute whatever content it tainted. Otherwise us brainlets won’t be able to figure out which part of the sequences to label “not true” due to memetic influence, and won’t know if your disagreements are real or made up for contrarianism’s sake.
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I think you reading way too much into the specific questionable wording of “tragically flawed”. By that I meant that they are flawed in some of the key background assumptions, how that influences thinking on AI risk/alignment, and the consequent system wide effects. I didn’t mean they are flawed at their surface level purpose—as rationalist self help and community foundations. They are very well written and concentrate a large amount of modern wisdom. But that of course isn’t the full reason for why EY wrote them: they are part of a training funnel to produce alignment researchers.