Our daily whims might be a bit inconsistent, but our larger goals aren’t.
It’s a key faith I used to share, but I’m now agnostic about that. To take a concrete exemple, everyone knows that blues and reds get more and more polarized. Grey type like old me would thought there must be a objective truth to extract with elements from both sides. Now I’m wondering if ethics should ends with: no truth can help deciding whether future humans should be able to live like bees or like dolphins or like the blues or like the reds, especially when living like the reds means eating the blues and living like the blues means eating the dolphins and saving the bees. But I’m very open to hear new heuristics to tackle this kind of question
And we can get those goals into AI—LLMs largely understand human ethics even at this point.
Very true, unless we nitpick definitions for « largely understand ».
And what we really want, at least in the near term, is an AGI that does what I mean and checks.
It’s a key faith I used to share, but I’m now agnostic about that. To take a concrete exemple, everyone knows that blues and reds get more and more polarized. Grey type like old me would thought there must be a objective truth to extract with elements from both sides. Now I’m wondering if ethics should ends with: no truth can help deciding whether future humans should be able to live like bees or like dolphins or like the blues or like the reds, especially when living like the reds means eating the blues and living like the blues means eating the dolphins and saving the bees. But I’m very open to hear new heuristics to tackle this kind of question
Very true, unless we nitpick definitions for « largely understand ».
Very interesting link, thank you.