Well, I feel the “red pill” part is directly relevant to alignment, both for current and long-term issues, the values that go into the AI part, and the power structure of the AI company that does it part.
I guess that’s why I included it into my post, don’t really know, I did it with mostly emotion and emotion is not well-interpretable always (sometimes for the best).
I do feel we (EA , tech, finance and related) need to discuss this as a community, the “red pill” stuff and whether it’s extreme (my experience n=1 and my interpretation of m=~100 other people says that yes, it’s a poorly and vaguely phrased partial theory that mostly explains how traumatic, unhappy, unhealthy relationships work (traumatized people are ones who will be most responsive to the “push-pull” pickup artistry, not because “this is how people are” but because “this is how traumatized people try to be happy and fail”), giving a phenomenological explanation with a completely wrong and actively harmful explanation of the underlying causes, with links to fascism and dehumanisation, agressiveness and fatalism)
Personally, I feel in a lot of cases this ideology is the reason people are unsuccessful in relationships: it is a fake cure for a problem that was probably “just” trauma and misunderstanding in the first place. Like, a society-wide misunderstanding between genders. Again, my personal view.
See my other comments about how “a society which is not aligned within itself is unlikely to be able to align other entities well”. Something as massive as this I believe should be addressed first before anything external can be taken care of
Same reason I feel the discussion “apple&android vs Nokia&fxtec” in another thread is very very very directly relevant to alignment, again, both power structure-wise and values themselves-wise.
Don’t really know to best do such a discussion, again, I’m only one person, I don’t really know :)
I am tired. I want a vacation from all this.
I have hope in the community that they are smart and capable and can sort these things through.
Well, I feel the “red pill” part is directly relevant to alignment, both for current and long-term issues, the values that go into the AI part, and the power structure of the AI company that does it part.
I guess that’s why I included it into my post, don’t really know, I did it with mostly emotion and emotion is not well-interpretable always (sometimes for the best).
I do feel we (EA , tech, finance and related) need to discuss this as a community, the “red pill” stuff and whether it’s extreme (my experience n=1 and my interpretation of m=~100 other people says that yes, it’s a poorly and vaguely phrased partial theory that mostly explains how traumatic, unhappy, unhealthy relationships work (traumatized people are ones who will be most responsive to the “push-pull” pickup artistry, not because “this is how people are” but because “this is how traumatized people try to be happy and fail”), giving a phenomenological explanation with a completely wrong and actively harmful explanation of the underlying causes, with links to fascism and dehumanisation, agressiveness and fatalism)
Personally, I feel in a lot of cases this ideology is the reason people are unsuccessful in relationships: it is a fake cure for a problem that was probably “just” trauma and misunderstanding in the first place. Like, a society-wide misunderstanding between genders. Again, my personal view.
See my other comments about how “a society which is not aligned within itself is unlikely to be able to align other entities well”. Something as massive as this I believe should be addressed first before anything external can be taken care of
Same reason I feel the discussion “apple&android vs Nokia&fxtec” in another thread is very very very directly relevant to alignment, again, both power structure-wise and values themselves-wise.
Don’t really know to best do such a discussion, again, I’m only one person, I don’t really know :)
I am tired. I want a vacation from all this.
I have hope in the community that they are smart and capable and can sort these things through.