Alignment Researchers Debate Why Value Alignment Was Long Neglected
In a thread with EpistemicHope and Andrew Curran, jdpressman argued that value alignment was long dismissed as unapproachable, and that corrigibility was a more tractable and error-robust path than direct value alignment, sparking debate over whether it has been underrated.
2026-11-14 ~ 2026-11-14 · 3 related posts
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