I upvoted and didn’t disagree-vote, because I generally agree that using AI to nudge online discourse in more productive directions seems good. But if I had to guess where disagree votes come from, it might be a combination of:
It seems like we probably want politeness-satisficing rather than politeness-maximizing. (This could be consistent with some versions of the mechanism you describe, or a very slightly tweaked version).
There’s a fine line between politiness-moderating and moderating the substance of ideas that make people uncomfortable. Historically, it has been hard to police this line, and given the empirically observable political preferences of LLMs, it’s reasonable for people who don’t share those preferences to worry that this will disadvantage them (though I expect this bias issue to get better over time, possibly very soon)
There is a time and place for spirited moral discourse that is not “polite,” because the targets of the discourse are engaging in highly morally objectionable action, and it would be bad to always discourage people from engaging in such discourse.*
*This is a complicated topic that I don’t claim to have either (a) fully coherent views on, or (b) have always lived up to the views I do endorse.
I upvoted and didn’t disagree-vote, because I generally agree that using AI to nudge online discourse in more productive directions seems good. But if I had to guess where disagree votes come from, it might be a combination of:
It seems like we probably want politeness-satisficing rather than politeness-maximizing. (This could be consistent with some versions of the mechanism you describe, or a very slightly tweaked version).
There’s a fine line between politiness-moderating and moderating the substance of ideas that make people uncomfortable. Historically, it has been hard to police this line, and given the empirically observable political preferences of LLMs, it’s reasonable for people who don’t share those preferences to worry that this will disadvantage them (though I expect this bias issue to get better over time, possibly very soon)
There is a time and place for spirited moral discourse that is not “polite,” because the targets of the discourse are engaging in highly morally objectionable action, and it would be bad to always discourage people from engaging in such discourse.*
*This is a complicated topic that I don’t claim to have either (a) fully coherent views on, or (b) have always lived up to the views I do endorse.