I object to calling this non-fiction. Is that a joke I fail to recognize? If not, on what grounds is this not sci-fi?
There are premises and even arguments here that are speculative.
Edit: Notably on morality and epistemics. Examples: 1. Treating extreme caution as an epistemically rational choice vs. moral choice ⇒ Questionable/straight up wrong. 2. Implicitly arguing that mechanistic interpretability is the only sound epistemic stance on safety. This does not generalize. Statistical evidence and bayesian updating is thrown out the window, and empirical evidence is glossed over. 3. Generalization/stability of natural abstraction, E.g. corrigibility generalizes as natural abstraction.
This is speculative fiction, although very sound overall. /end of edit
I object to calling this non-fiction. Is that a joke I fail to recognize? If not, on what grounds is this not sci-fi?
There are premises and even arguments here that are speculative.
Edit: Notably on morality and epistemics. Examples: 1. Treating extreme caution as an epistemically rational choice vs. moral choice ⇒ Questionable/straight up wrong. 2. Implicitly arguing that mechanistic interpretability is the only sound epistemic stance on safety. This does not generalize. Statistical evidence and bayesian updating is thrown out the window, and empirical evidence is glossed over. 3. Generalization/stability of natural abstraction, E.g. corrigibility generalizes as natural abstraction.
This is speculative fiction, although very sound overall. /end of edit
Is it not ‘bad’ to mislead naive readers?
Great read either way. As per usual.
Are not speculative arguments about reality normally shelved as nonfiction?
Depends on the degree? Also, not in my language, not in academic libraries. But in English I guess the umbrella is large.