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Joe Edelman: Meaning-Aligned AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Difference Between Collectivism and Individualism?

In Japan or Norway, people feel oppressed by the collective. They don't feel like they can express themselves as freely. And so I think that the division between social norms and personal values kind of solves this because there are collective things that are part of our free expression. Half of sociality is amplifying the individual, right? Or unlocking the individual. There's another half of sociality, which is like all the rules and the norms and like, and you don't really want to amplify them with technology too much. You don't want to clamp down even harder. This is why people are afraid of things like Chinese social credit,. Because they imagine a kind of dystopia where the tech

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