I agree that Eliezer has made different points different places, and don’t think that the Fun Theory series makes this clear, and CEV as described seems to not say it. (I can’t try to resolve all the internal tensions between the multiple bookshelves woth of content he’s produced, so I referred to “fun theory, as written.”)
And I certainly don’t think conflict as such is good! (I’ve written about the benefits of avoiding conflict at some length on my substack about cooperation.) My point here was subtly different, and more specific to CEV; I think that solutions for eliminating conflict which route around humans themselves solving the problems might be fundamentally destructive of our values.
I agree that Eliezer has made different points different places, and don’t think that the Fun Theory series makes this clear, and CEV as described seems to not say it. (I can’t try to resolve all the internal tensions between the multiple bookshelves woth of content he’s produced, so I referred to “fun theory, as written.”)
And I certainly don’t think conflict as such is good! (I’ve written about the benefits of avoiding conflict at some length on my substack about cooperation.) My point here was subtly different, and more specific to CEV; I think that solutions for eliminating conflict which route around humans themselves solving the problems might be fundamentally destructive of our values.