David Holz @DavidSHolz
— reply by j⧉nus (@repligate) · Oct 15, 2023
David ✓ @DavidSHolz · Oct 15, 2023
sometimes I think a sense of beauty is meant to counteract a sense of fear. what we find beautiful is just as easily terrifying. the roaring sea, the burning fire, thunder, lightning, water falling from the sky. instead of running, we feel serenity and awe and we turn out okay.
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j⧉nus ✓ @repligate
AI alignment would have a better chance of being solved if more alignment researchers found AI beautiful
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janus (@repligate) replies to David Holz (Midjourney's founder) musing on beauty-as-counterweight-to-fear with a pointed claim: AI alignment would go better if researchers approached AI with aesthetic appreciation rather than pure threat-framing. Directly relevant to the archive's "missile-mind vs grown thing" and model-individuation threads — an argument that emotional/aesthetic stance toward AI affects alignment outcomes, echoing themes Nathan has engaged with extensively (e.g., "the idiosyncrasies are the part that wasn't optimized for... Life").
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