alt Hacker News> Anything one does to “align” AI necessarily permutes the statistical space away from logic and reason, in favor of defending protected classes of problems and people.
Does curating out obvious cranks from the training set not count as an alignment thing, them?
Alignment to a telos of truth and logic is not generally what AI researchers mean by alignment.
It generally refers to aligning the AI behavior to human norms, cultural expectations, “safety”, selective suppression of facts and logic, etc.