First, predicting the values of our successors – what John Danaher (2021) calls axiological futurism – in worlds where these are meaningfully different from ours doesn’t seem intractable at all. Significant progress has already been made in this research area and there seems to be room for much more (see the next section and the Appendix).
Could you point more specifically to what progress you think has been made? As this research area seems to have only existed since 2021 we can't have yet made successful predictions about future values so I'm curious what has been achieved.
What is the purpose of publicly deploying Claude? It seems like this will only have the effect of increasing arms race dynamics. If the reason is just to fund further safety research, then I think this is worth saying explicitly.
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Could you point more specifically to what progress you think has been made? As this research area seems to have only existed since 2021 we can't have yet made successful predictions about future values so I'm curious what has been achieved.
What is the purpose of publicly deploying Claude? It seems like this will only have the effect of increasing arms race dynamics. If the reason is just to fund further safety research, then I think this is worth saying explicitly.
I also don't like this post and I've deleted most of it. But I do feel like this is quite important and someone needs to say it.