Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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Using Deep Learning to Make Ethical Decisions
Rilik: The research is somehow veiled. It's presented as, this is how we can get a computer to make ethical judgments. Choss in some deep learning and algorithms, and boom, you have this robot that can give responses like 'i hate the jews so ocas' Rilik: Wouldn't it be just a much better idea to come up with all the potential ethical questions this robot will well encounter? Like, i don't understand the right responses? Well, les, then we could like, just do it ourselves.
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