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Some people, especially at Anthropic, believe models are easier to align to a specification centered on generalized virtue or improving the world than to one centered on fiduciary service to individual users.
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“People believe, I think people, especially in Anthropik,”
“think that it is easier to align models to a spec where the model is like pursuing some generalized notion of virtue or making the world better than a spec which is more like.”54:07Report a misattribution
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