As a fan of Yudkowsky’s ideas about the technical alignment problem with deep respect for the man I must say I find this posts irreverence very funny and worthwhile. I don’t think we should expect perfection from any human, but I like to think that Eliezer and his fans should feel at least a twinge of guilt for creating a zeitgeist that would inspire this post.
Now if it had been Eliezer, Connor Leahy, and Roman Yampolskiy all on the track I might have to start forming Fermi estimates about how many people it would take to slow down or derail the trolly, our lightcone and other strange counterfactual of this moral dilemma.
I have stumbled on this post a decade later...
As a fan of Yudkowsky’s ideas about the technical alignment problem with deep respect for the man I must say I find this posts irreverence very funny and worthwhile. I don’t think we should expect perfection from any human, but I like to think that Eliezer and his fans should feel at least a twinge of guilt for creating a zeitgeist that would inspire this post.
Now if it had been Eliezer, Connor Leahy, and Roman Yampolskiy all on the track I might have to start forming Fermi estimates about how many people it would take to slow down or derail the trolly, our lightcone and other strange counterfactual of this moral dilemma.