I can point you to any number of posts on the Alignment Forum that are not made out of telling each other to do specific things.
My understanding from personal experience and the reports of people at MIRI is that MIRI isn’t even using very basic decision theory or AI alignment results in practice. I’m not doubting that people are still participating in a kind of dissociated discourse that doesn’t affect actions, and separately that they do a thing where they try to use words to compel actions from others. The problem is that the former seems to be increasingly just for show, and not predictive of behavior the way you’d expect if stated preferences and models were accurate.
My understanding from personal experience and the reports of people at MIRI is that MIRI isn’t even using very basic decision theory or AI alignment results in practice. I’m not doubting that people are still participating in a kind of dissociated discourse that doesn’t affect actions, and separately that they do a thing where they try to use words to compel actions from others. The problem is that the former seems to be increasingly just for show, and not predictive of behavior the way you’d expect if stated preferences and models were accurate.