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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.
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Then again, most humans conception of right and wrong depends on context, not on a coherent morality framework.
What does that even mean? Contact matters.
I mean most of the time we act based on what we perceive to be socially acceptable, not by following an ethical law gained through our own experience.
If you move people to a different social environment, they'll adapt to fit unless actively discouraged.
The social context is the AI prompt.
We rarely decide, make choices, or reflect about anything, we regurgitate our training data based on our prompts.
Excellent, thank you! I’m wondering if something was lost in translation or my interpretation. When I think “context,” I consider something along the lines of: “Water is good.”
Is it good for a person drowning? What if it’s contaminated? What about during a hurricane/typhoon? And so forth.
Yeah sorry about that, sometimes thing that feel evident in my head are anything but when written.
And translation adds a layer of possible confusion.
I'd rather drown in clean water given a choice.
No worries, friend! I’m the same way and when questioned, upon rereading my post, even I wonder what on earth I was thinking, when I wrote it!
I hear you. Sadly, we’re often not given a choice, wrt water.