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[Book Review] "The Alignment Problem" by Brian Christian

📅 2021
policy development
🔵 Rare
#ai #ai risk #book reviews / media reviews

📖 Description

I came to this book with [an ax to grind](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZYDkHWjShKazTywbg/review-the-alignment-problem-by-brian-christian?commentId=CwaL3brZi5QbeLrtt). I combed through page after page for factual errors, minor misrepresentations or even just contestable opinions. I spotted (what seemed like) omission after omission only to be frustrated just a few pages later when Brian Christian addressed them. In the *Chapter 5: Shaping* I thought I found a major mistake. Brian Christian addressed Skinnerian operant conditioning without addressing the real way we manages human groups: leading by example.

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