I agree that if value-aligned is being used in the sense you are talking about, then it’s fine.
The allegations are that it’s not being used in that sense. That it’s being used to punish people in general for having unorthodox beliefs.
The article I linked states that:
Low PELTIV value was assigned to applicants who worked to reduce global poverty or mitigate climate change, while the highest value was assigned to those who directly worked for EA organizations or on artificial intelligence.
This would be completely fine if you were in an AI risk organisation: obviously you mostly want people who believe in the cause. But this is the centre for effective altruism. It’s meant to be neutral, but this proposal would have directly penalised people for disagreeing with orthodoxy.
It’s not clear from the article whether the high PELTIV score came from high value-alignment scores or something else. If anything, it sounds like there was a separate cause-specific modifier (but it’s very hard to tell). So I don’t think this is much evidence for misuse of “value-aligned”.
I agree that if value-aligned is being used in the sense you are talking about, then it’s fine.
The allegations are that it’s not being used in that sense. That it’s being used to punish people in general for having unorthodox beliefs.
The article I linked states that:
This would be completely fine if you were in an AI risk organisation: obviously you mostly want people who believe in the cause. But this is the centre for effective altruism. It’s meant to be neutral, but this proposal would have directly penalised people for disagreeing with orthodoxy.
It’s not clear from the article whether the high PELTIV score came from high value-alignment scores or something else. If anything, it sounds like there was a separate cause-specific modifier (but it’s very hard to tell). So I don’t think this is much evidence for misuse of “value-aligned”.