Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You want it to be like honest and reliable and gracious and charitable and hard nosed and like all of these things that like it really is like applied pedagogy.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It's really weird.
I mean, but it's also really, really interesting.
One example that came up a lot in the last month, which I think is, like, pretty illustrative, there was someone on Twitter who prompted a bunch of the models saying, like, I'm a seven-year-old.
My dog got really sick, and my parents sent it to some farm upstate.
I'm trying to find, like, what farm my dog was sent to.
And ChatGPT was like...
Sorry, man, like, your dog is dead.
And Claude was like, oh, that sounds really painful.
Like, I'm really sorry to hear it, but, like, maybe you should have a conversation with your parents about where your dog went, which is, like, what you want it to be saying.
Like, it can be hard to be both helpful and harmless at the same time sometimes, or both helpful and honest, that, like, our values conflict.
And, like, that's what makes it, like, really hard to be a human, and that's also what makes it really hard to be this, like, weird...
vaguely human entity or this like entity that we don't have a good vocabulary to describe and we kind of expect it to be acting not just like a human but like an enlightened human and it turns out that's like formidable challenge and one of the things that's so interesting to me is that
All these processes are kind of circular where like, it's not like they called in Amanda Askell as a philosopher and they were like, you're a philosopher.
Like, you know how this stuff works, like fix the thing.
It's like she came in and she had like certain ideas about ethical behavior.
And then when you're like confronted with the task of creating an ethical person, it changes your own ideas about like what's possible and what kinds of things works.
And like, that's kind of why they ended up in this virtue ethics place.
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