Contribution seq 7373

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      "title": "Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty (transcribed dialogue)",
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      "canonical_uri": "https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/7im8at9PmhbT4JHsW/ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty"
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      "title": "Conflating value alignment and intent alignment is causing confusion",
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      "canonical_uri": "https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/83TbrDxvQwkLuiuxk/conflating-value-alignment-and-intent-alignment-is-causing-1"
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      "excerpt": "my position is something like: human pursuit of goals is driven by emotions and reward signals which are deeply evolutionarily ingrained, and without those we'd be much safer but not that much worse at pattern recognition.",
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      "excerpt": "What if that synthetic being's explicit, considered goal is to approximately follow instructions? I think it's possible for a fully self-aware, goal-oriented AGI to have its goal be, loosely speaking, a pointer to someone else's goals. No human is oriented this way, but it seems conceptually coherent to want to do, with all of your heart, just what someone else wants.",
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      "statement": "Ngo: human goal-pursuit is driven by deeply evolutionarily ingrained emotions and reward signals — drives AIs need not share.",
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      "statement": "AGI could have 'follow instructions' as its explicit core goal — an orientation no human shares, making AI alignment structurally simpler.",
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      "note": "Humans carry hard-to-change evolutionary drives that resist alignment; AIs can be built without those drives, easing the alignment problem.",
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      "note": "Directly argues an AGI can be structured around instruction-following in a way no human is oriented toward — alignment easier for AI than humans.",
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  "searched": "Web searches on AI-vs-human alignment difficulty (terms: '\"easier to align\" AI \"than humans\" alignment argument', 'aligning AI easier than aligning humans inspectable retrainable humans opaque argument'); read the Ngo/Yudkowsky alignment-difficulty dialogue and the intent-vs-value-alignment essay in full. Both support the claim, so this is a positive finding."
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