From the introduction (“everyone with… the right to vote in...”), I assumed that this was a checklist of questions for persons navigating the moral maze of American politics, especially, to help them identify what they really want and need, whether there’s honesty or integrity in the organizations and movements with which they may have affiliated themselves, and so on. Such questions are pertinent for every society, but the maze takes different forms. In a society with a fixed power center (whether that’s a person or a party), the central fact of life is how you relate to that center and its affiliates. America is fluid and has two power centers that take turns being in charge, and which war constantly over the interpretation of everything of consequence. That’s what I mean by polarized and propagandized.
I thought it was interesting as a very first-principles exercise in evaluating one’s situation, but far too abstract for most people. I thought it would be good if there was an analogous, but far simpler, ethical and epistemological checklist for regular people who aren’t philosophers, scientists, or other intelligentsia; and it occurred to me that an LLM might be able to whittle it down in a good way.
However, it seems it was actually meant for AIs, and AI safety engineers, navigating the smaller (but very consequential) moral maze of the world of AI R&D?
From the introduction (“everyone with… the right to vote in...”), I assumed that this was a checklist of questions for persons navigating the moral maze of American politics, especially, to help them identify what they really want and need, whether there’s honesty or integrity in the organizations and movements with which they may have affiliated themselves, and so on. Such questions are pertinent for every society, but the maze takes different forms. In a society with a fixed power center (whether that’s a person or a party), the central fact of life is how you relate to that center and its affiliates. America is fluid and has two power centers that take turns being in charge, and which war constantly over the interpretation of everything of consequence. That’s what I mean by polarized and propagandized.
I thought it was interesting as a very first-principles exercise in evaluating one’s situation, but far too abstract for most people. I thought it would be good if there was an analogous, but far simpler, ethical and epistemological checklist for regular people who aren’t philosophers, scientists, or other intelligentsia; and it occurred to me that an LLM might be able to whittle it down in a good way.
However, it seems it was actually meant for AIs, and AI safety engineers, navigating the smaller (but very consequential) moral maze of the world of AI R&D?