Does 3 include “cares about x risk and other things, does a good job of evaluating the trade off of each action according to their values, but is sometimes willing to do things that are great according to their other values but slightly negative results x risk”?
Also, from the outside, can you describe how an observer would distinguish between [any of the items on the list] and the situation you lay out in your comment / what the downsides are to treating them similarly? I think Michael’s point is that it’s not useful/worth it to distinguish.
Whether someone is dishonest, incompetent, or underweighting x-risk (by my lights) mostly doesn’t matter for how I interface with them, or how I think the field ought to regard them, since I don’t think we should brow beat people or treat them punitively. Bottom line is I’ll rely (as an unvalenced substitute for ‘trust’) on them a little less.
I think you’re right to point out the valence of the initial wording, fwiw. I just think taxonomizing apparent defection isn’t necessary if we take as a given that we ought to treat people well and avoid claiming special knowledge of their internals, while maintaining the integrity of our personal and professional circles of trust.
if we take as a given that we ought to treat people well and avoid claiming special knowledge of their internals, while maintaining the integrity of our personal and professional circles of trust.
If we take this as a given, I’m happy for people to categorise others however they’d like! I haven’t noticed people other than you taking that perspective in this thread
My read is that in practice many people in the online LW community are fairly hostile, and many people in the labs think the community doesn’t know what they’re talking about and totally ignores them/doesn’t really care if they’re made to walk the metaphorical plank.
Does 3 include “cares about x risk and other things, does a good job of evaluating the trade off of each action according to their values, but is sometimes willing to do things that are great according to their other values but slightly negative results x risk”?
This looks closer to 2 to me?
Also, from the outside, can you describe how an observer would distinguish between [any of the items on the list] and the situation you lay out in your comment / what the downsides are to treating them similarly? I think Michael’s point is that it’s not useful/worth it to distinguish.
Whether someone is dishonest, incompetent, or underweighting x-risk (by my lights) mostly doesn’t matter for how I interface with them, or how I think the field ought to regard them, since I don’t think we should brow beat people or treat them punitively. Bottom line is I’ll rely (as an unvalenced substitute for ‘trust’) on them a little less.
I think you’re right to point out the valence of the initial wording, fwiw. I just think taxonomizing apparent defection isn’t necessary if we take as a given that we ought to treat people well and avoid claiming special knowledge of their internals, while maintaining the integrity of our personal and professional circles of trust.
If we take this as a given, I’m happy for people to categorise others however they’d like! I haven’t noticed people other than you taking that perspective in this thread
Oh man — I sure hope making ‘defectors’ and lab safety staff walk the metaphorical plank isn’t on the table. Then we’re really in trouble.
My read is that in practice many people in the online LW community are fairly hostile, and many people in the labs think the community doesn’t know what they’re talking about and totally ignores them/doesn’t really care if they’re made to walk the metaphorical plank.