Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
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I'm like that actually, if anything can generalize to like a bad character.
And so the scary thing with your kind of like rules is that you're having to think about every possible circumstance.
And if you are too strict with the rules, then any case that you didn't anticipate could actually generalize kind of badly.
Yeah, so I think one thing that's kind of been interesting, and maybe this is like the kind of ethics background or something, but theoretical ethics, and actually kind of maybe this is how people think of ethics, where they're like, oh, you have a sort of set of views, and it's very subjective, and people have their values, their values are really fixed, and you're just injecting someone's values into models.
And I guess I'm just kind of like, that doesn't feel to me like an accurate representation of what ethics actually is.
First, I'm like, I think a lot of human ethics is actually like quite universal.
Like a lot of us want to be treated kindly and with respect.
A lot of us want to be treated honestly.
It's not like these things actually deviate so much across the world.
Like there's actually like a kind of core ethos of like things that we care about.
And so, you know, there is a sense in which I think you can take very shared common values and you can explain to models who have like a huge amount of context on this.
So they also have a sense of this.
Like we want you to kind of embody those.
And then beyond that, it feels reasonable to me to be like, treat ethics the same way you would any domain where we're kind of uncertain, where we have some evidence, where there's debate, there's discussion, and you don't hold it excessively strongly.
So in a case of values where there's massive division and huge debate...
I think the way that I tend to treat those is be like, oh, yeah, I see the evidence on both sides.
I weigh it up and I try and take a kind of reasonable set of behaviors, given that I know that unlike some more common and core ethical values, these ones are a little bit more contentious.
And I'm just like, you can approach it with this openness.
And so I think it's like trying to describe something more like a kind of way of approaching things like ethics rather than being like, ah, let's just take a set of values and
that we've picked and we're certain in and just like inject it into models.
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