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An Aphoristic Overview of Technical AI Alignment proposals
Most alignment overviews are too long, but what if we rewrote one as a series of aphorisms?
I like Epictetus's confronting style: abrasive, clarifying. See my fuller post for links and nuance.
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Some problems can be solved by being smarter.
Some problems can only be solved by having help.
Aligning something smarter than you is the second kind.
So many proposals collapse to:
use AI to help supervise AI.
It sounds too simple. It's the only thing that scales.....
