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Comment by JuniperMesos

2 days ago

> Riley: Hey, what's class

> Huey: It means don't act like niggas

> Grandad: S-see, that's what I'm talkin' about right there. We don't use the n-word in this house

> Huey: Grandad, you said the word "nigga" 46 times yesterday. I counted

> Grandad: Nigga, hush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLodIw5iKX8

Funny scene, but it also illustrates a more serious point about (human) alignment - not all humans believe exactly the same things are good and bad, or consistently act in accordance with what they claim they believe is good. This is such a basic fact of human social life that it's almost banal to point it out explicitly; but if (specific) human beings or (specific) organizations of human beings are trying to align the AIs they are creating to human values, it will eventually become apparent that the notion of "human values" stops being coherent once you zoom in enough. Humans don't all share the same values, we aren't completely aligned with each other.