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by jazzyjackson 27 days ago
Every time I hear “safe “ all I can think of is Brand Safety. Anthropic suffers reputational damage if its product is used for malicious purposes. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the “safety” / alignment talk that all the true believers go on about.
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It's because there's no real solution to the alignment problem.

Humanity is on aggregate optimizing for increasing collective intelligence and I don't see that stopping as the main goal when AI gets smarter than humanity, just hope that we all will have a nice human life.

I have not had the same experience of what humanity is optimizing for ! unless 'collective intelligence' is a byword for 'bureaucracy' ?