EAs talk a lot about value alignment and try to identify people who are aligned with them. I do, too. But this is also funny at a global level, given we don’t understand our values nor aren’t very sure about how to understand them much better, reliably. Zoe’s post highlights that it’s too early to double down on our current best guesses and more diversification is needed to cover more of the vast search space.
EAs talk a lot about value alignment and try to identify people who are aligned with them. I do, too. But this is also funny at a global level, given we don’t understand our values nor aren’t very sure about how to understand them much better, reliably. Zoe’s post highlights that it’s too early to double down on our current best guesses and more diversification is needed to cover more of the vast search space.