This was an excellent meta-review! Thanks for sharing it.
I agree that these little slips of language are important; they can easily compound into very stubborn memes. (I don’t know whether the first person to propose a paperclip AI regrets it, but picking a different example seems like it could have had a meaningful impact on the field’s progress.)
This was an excellent meta-review! Thanks for sharing it.
I agree that these little slips of language are important; they can easily compound into very stubborn memes. (I don’t know whether the first person to propose a paperclip AI regrets it, but picking a different example seems like it could have had a meaningful impact on the field’s progress.)
Agreed.
These seem to often be examples of hedge drift, and their potential consequences seem like examples of memetic downside risks.