So if an AI being aligned means that it cares about animals to the extent humans do, it could still be unaligned with respect to the animals’ own values to the extent humans are mistaken about them (which we most certainly are).
I very much agree with this. This will actually be one of the topics I will research in the next 12 months, with Peter Singer.
Love this. It’s one of the things on my “possible questions to think about at some point” list. My motivation would be
Try to figure out what specific animals care about. (A simple sanity check here is to try to figure out what a human cares about, which is hard enough. Try expand this question to humans from different cultures, and it quickly gets more and more complicated.)
Try to figure out how I’m figuring out what animals care about. This is the primary question, because we want to generalize the strategies for helping beings that care about different things than us. This is usefwl not just for animals, but also as a high-level approach to the pointers problem in the human case as well.
Most of the value of the project comes from 2, so I would pay very carefwl attention to what I’m doing when trying to answer 1. Once I make an insight on 1, what general features led me to that insight?
I very much agree with this. This will actually be one of the topics I will research in the next 12 months, with Peter Singer.
Love this. It’s one of the things on my “possible questions to think about at some point” list. My motivation would be
Try to figure out what specific animals care about. (A simple sanity check here is to try to figure out what a human cares about, which is hard enough. Try expand this question to humans from different cultures, and it quickly gets more and more complicated.)
Try to figure out how I’m figuring out what animals care about. This is the primary question, because we want to generalize the strategies for helping beings that care about different things than us. This is usefwl not just for animals, but also as a high-level approach to the pointers problem in the human case as well.
Most of the value of the project comes from 2, so I would pay very carefwl attention to what I’m doing when trying to answer 1. Once I make an insight on 1, what general features led me to that insight?