LessWrongalignment3h agoenergy 125

Too Many Yellow Flags

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Okay, let's do this thing... Premise: If a concept can be easily conveyed in an academic setting then the labor required to write it is too boring, too undignified, for a human to perform merely to ensure its conveyance. Instead, to expect a human to write it, the concept itself can no longer be the only thing being conveyed. What must also be conveyed is the sharpness of the concept, exposed through the literary talent and humanity of the writer. I have a stupid fucking problem. Right now I am floating in the middle of the ocean on a big boat. This is my first vacation in years and it is going poorly. The food is bad, the port stops are being cancelled due to apocalyptic weather phenomena, and it seems there are more mobility scooters and walkers on board than passengers under forty. But none of these are my stupid fucking problem. Rather, my problem is that I must spend part of my miserable time on this earth endeavoring to be accepted on LessWrong as a full writer because the CEO of my company wants me to be able to publish the groundbreaking alignment research that we work on in our internal alignment lab in a place where it will be publicly accessible to thousands of researche

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