Joshua Achiam @jachiam0
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Seth Lazar reposted Joshua Achiam @jachiam0 · 2h I like this framing. It is extremely important for us to become neither lazy nor incurious about questions related to power: we should be, if not exhaustive, at least always somewhat clear in our debates about what powers are good, what exercises of power are just and productive, and where we choose to draw the lines between acceptable uses and concentrations of power and unacceptable ones. Individual liberty is something we should clearly make the case for and distinguish from other potential configurations of society and power. [quoted tweet] Seth Lazar @sethlazar · 7h I am glad that people in AI safety (etc) have woken up to concentration of power in the last little while. But I do dislike its invocation with implicit normative loading (which, btw, is inherited from the STS crowd, and ultimately ... [cut off]
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Tweet by Joshua Achiam, reposted by Seth Lazar, endorsing the framing of Lazar's quoted tweet and arguing for clarity about which exercises and concentrations of power are acceptable.
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