I don’t know, Simon has had a pretty sane and level head on his shoulders on this stuff. To my mind he’s earned the right to be taken seriously when talking about approaches he has found helpful.
If someone with coprolalia is involuntarily induced to say the most awful, inappropriate thing possible in a given situation, doesn’t shouting slurs show that they aren’t racist?
Someone who is deeply racist would presumably consider racial slurs to be neutral statements, and not actually care about who they are offending. I wonder if that would actually steer the coprolalia away from racial slurs and toward something else that one has internalized as truly “offensive”.
A racist knows that the slurs are offensive. He knows that people will be hurt by it.
He may also use the term even when he doesn't intend to harm people -- just as you might casually use otherwise-offensive words for excretion or copulation. But you don't use them in polite company because you know that they bother people.
Hi! Have you published the concept dictionary yet? I’m looking into using Steerling to investigate how different moral scenarios elicit various responses in LLMs (using Haidt MFT concepts mostly), and my first few inference runs have been hamstrung by not having a canonical mapping of concepts to IDs. Thanks!
The whole point of “agency” is that there is a principal (you) behind the agent that owns all responsibility. The agent ACTS for you, it does not absorb any liability for those acts — that flows straight back to the principal.
Just because the AI companies have decided to use the word "agent" doesn't means it's legally an agent. It's just a word they chose. Maybe it'll also be found legally to be an agent but it's likely that'll vary depending on the jurisdiction and will take at least a few years and lots of lawyer bills to iron out.
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