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  • @GorillasAreForEating
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    81 year ago

    On that note, does anyone know how the term “alignment” came to be used in the context of AI? Because I have my suspicions that it was borrowed from D&D but I don’t actually know if this is true.

    • @selfMA
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      51 year ago

      that’s stupid enough that I suspect it’s correct. a lot of what rationalists do feels like a bad D&D campaign taken too seriously and given too much money

      • David GerardMA
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        31 year ago

        are we sure the answer isn’t that it’s from an anime? because it’s always anime

    • David GerardMA
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      31 year ago

      i think it’s a yud-ism, what was earliest usage?

      • Sailor Sega Saturn
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        31 year ago

        The earliest dated reference I could find was here which links to another (undated) post where Stuart Russel used the (likely precursor) phrase “value alignment” in late 2014. Whatever the origin it looks like it picked up steam over 2015, as seen in this MIRI post.

        But I could be totally off base, since Google’s date search is practically useless.

        • David GerardMA
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          21 year ago

          yeah, that’s about the time Russell drank the Yud kool aid

  • @future_synthetic
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    61 year ago

    Fictitious existential threats are a favorite, because fiction is difficult if not impossible to disprove. We can’t know if any of this will happen, but WHAT IF IT DOES??? Then you’ll be sorry!

    • @geriksonOP
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      41 year ago

      Thanks, subscribed via fedi.

  • @hrrrngh
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    21 year ago

    Old post but one of my favorite things on here is seeing people you recognize tearing apart TESCREAL garbage