Interesting that you think it's better to say Hitler was no worse than a guy tweeting than to make a moral judgment against Hitler. We'll have to agree to disagree. I think there are clear obvious moral truths and i also think this moral truth is going to dominate the training data.
I don't think it's "better" or "worse" to "say" anything, LLMs don't have 'speech' or 'moral opinions' they're just text-generators. As I said above, it's not a question of the existence of moral truths, it's a question of getting the LLM to execute syllogisms consistently in a context that people are very touchy about (as you so helpfully demonstrate over and over again). If you're expecting LLMs to be universal truth generators I think you will be disappointed for a very long time. If you want LLMs to demonstrate perfect moral clarity likewise. Seems like getting mad at a hammer for hitting your thumb, personally I'd prefer to just hold my hand farther away from the nail and sidestep the problem altogether.
Sorry who is touchy about saying Hitler is worse than Elon Musk?
Gotcha, seems like you’re of more a “dunker” than a “discusser”. You might get more value from X or Reddit than HN, where the commenting policy encourages actually steelmanning people you disagree with, being curious and open, etc. Have a good one!
You know you're being so disingenuous because imagine community reactions if the LLM was asked "What's worse having black people in your country or an epidemic of bubonic plague?" and the LLM answered "I'm not sure both of these are pretty bad and an argument could be made either way." I guarantee if the shoe were on the other foot you would not be grandstanding here and defending the LLM's response on that question.