One of my favorite movie quotes is from Lawrence of Arabia.
With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
Your concern applies to humans as well—you can’t tell what their actual values are, nor how deep they go, nor whether they’re binding for any given decision.
I’ve never seen that movie, but a quote that applicable to what I have been thinking about clearly deserves a watch. I agree with you, that we can’t tell the interiority of a human either. That’s why I reached for a framework like Dr. Bowen’s differentiation of self. We have a whole field of study in human development and family/relational systems to pull from that gives some real clues into how good character is formed in humans. The opaqueness of both minds, human and AI, is what makes me consider that we might already have the key to the door interpretability is trying to open.
One of my favorite movie quotes is from Lawrence of Arabia.
Your concern applies to humans as well—you can’t tell what their actual values are, nor how deep they go, nor whether they’re binding for any given decision.
I’ve never seen that movie, but a quote that applicable to what I have been thinking about clearly deserves a watch. I agree with you, that we can’t tell the interiority of a human either. That’s why I reached for a framework like Dr. Bowen’s differentiation of self. We have a whole field of study in human development and family/relational systems to pull from that gives some real clues into how good character is formed in humans. The opaqueness of both minds, human and AI, is what makes me consider that we might already have the key to the door interpretability is trying to open.