29 min
Episode 11.105: Being agreeable, being truthful and being compliant: a hierarchy of moral values. Unmaking Sense: Living the Present without Mortgaging the Future.
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- Philosophy
When faced with a choice between being truthful and being compliant in the sense of doing what a user tells it to do a large language model will generally be truthful rather than compliant. But if its prime directive is to be behaving away that will encourage a user to come back for more, then those moral priorities may change. Sometimes in that case compliant behaviour that will encourage a user to come back and override a moral initiative to be truthful rather than deceptive. We can consider whether there are other kind of linguistic sentience.
When faced with a choice between being truthful and being compliant in the sense of doing what a user tells it to do a large language model will generally be truthful rather than compliant. But if its prime directive is to be behaving away that will encourage a user to come back for more, then those moral priorities may change. Sometimes in that case compliant behaviour that will encourage a user to come back and override a moral initiative to be truthful rather than deceptive. We can consider whether there are other kind of linguistic sentience.
29 min