If your complaint is that the default assumption is that these are more or less true, well, my claim is that even though normies tend to see this as a negative signal, it’s actually a positive signal for those with good epistemics.
That said, it’s important to keep in mind that these aren’t directly talking about actual systems (the Orthogonality Thesis is about possible systems and Instrumental Convergence is about incentives).
If your complaint is that the default assumption is that these are more or less true, well, my claim is that even though normies tend to see this as a negative signal, it’s actually a positive signal for those with good epistemics.
That said, it’s important to keep in mind that these aren’t directly talking about actual systems (the Orthogonality Thesis is about possible systems and Instrumental Convergence is about incentives).
I more or less agree. It’s not really a complaint from me. I probably was too provocative in my choice of wording earlier.