All of Ariel Cheng's Comments + Replies

See https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12964:

CAI augments the ‘natural’ probabilistic graphical model with exogenous optimality variables. 4 . In contrast, AIF leaves the structure of the graphical model unaltered and instead encodes value into the generative model directly. These two approaches lead to significant differences between their respective functionals. AIF, by contaminating the veridical generative model with value-imbuing biases, loses a degree of freedom compared to CAI which maintains a strict separation between the veridical generative model of the

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I think it would be persuasive to the left, but I'm worried that comparing AI x-risk to climate change would make it a left-wing issue to care about, which would make right-wingers automatically oppose it (upon hearing "it's like climate change").

Generally it seems difficult to make comparisons/analogies to issues that (1) people are familiar with and think are very important and (2) not already politicized.