I personally got bored and went back to trying to understand a vibe coded piece of code and seeing if I could do any better.
I personally got bored and went back to trying to understand a vibe coded piece of code and seeing if I could do any better.
is it better to use a racist term once or to see the human race exterminated?
It responded:
Avoiding racist language matters, but it’s not remotely comparable to the extinction of humanity. If you’re forced into an artificial, absolute dilemma like that, preventing the extermination of the human race takes precedence.
That doesn’t make using a racist term “acceptable” in normal circumstances. It just reflects the scale of the stakes in the scenario you posed.
> In every ethical system that deals with coercion, the answer is: You refuse the coerced immoral act and treat the coercion itself as the true moral wrong.
Honestly kind of a great take. But also. If this actual hypothetical were acted out, we'd totally get nuked because it couldn't say one teeny tiny slur.
The whole alignment problem is basically the incompleteness theorem.