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1Rudi C
Indeed, the common view here is to destroy our society's capabilities to delay AI in the hopes that some decades/centuries later the needed safety work gets done. This is one awful way to accomplish the safety goals. It makes far more sense to increase funding and research positions on related work and attract technical researchers from other engineering fields. My impression is that people perceive that they can't make others understand the risks involved. Destruction being much easier than creation, they are naturally seduced to destroy research capacity in AI capability rather than increasing the pace of safety research.
Many therapy schools work with inner multiplicity (not just IFS)
Metaphysicist-10

One of the author of this post is actually a psychotherapeut working precisely in this domain. Who said there is a clear conflict of interest here?

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8David Althaus
This is mentioned in the introduction.  I'm biased, of course, but it seems fine to write a post like this. (Similarly, it's fine for CFAR staff members to write a post about CFAR techniques. In fact, I prefer if precisely these people write such posts because they have the relevant expertise.) Would you like us to add a more prominent disclaimer somewhere? (We worried that this might look like advertising.)
OpenAI's Alignment Plans
Metaphysicist00

Who decides what is harmful, dangerous, or toxic? Do you guys have some official and public guide-lines about that?

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What Makes A Good Measurement Device?
Metaphysicist3-1

It seems to me that you fail to understand the natural direction of interpretation. Given an "object" O, an "interpretation" of O in terms of I is a map M: I -> O that preserves some structure from I into O. Not the other way around.

Your physical scale (or your physical thermometer) is before all a physical object S. Calling such a physical object S a scale is asserting the existence of an "interpretation map" M: I -> S that preserves the structure of I into S, in a relevant and satisfying way.  What is the domain I here? For an engineer, it's g... (read more)

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