Speaker unverified: uncertainty

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…Yeah, that’s a beautiful framework. I want you to think about this, a world traveler, and while holding onto your opinions, you don’t talk down to people, you don’t think you’re better than them because you have those opinions, that kind of thing. You have to be good at listening and understanding their perspective, even if it doesn’t match your own. So that’s a tricky balance to strike. So how can Claude represent multiple perspectives on a thing? Is that challenging? We could talk about politics is a very divisive, but there’s other divisive topics on baseball teams, sports and so on. How is it possible to empathize with a different perspective and to be able to communicate clearly about the multiple perspectives? I think that people think about values and opinions as things that people hold with certainty and almost preferences of taste or something like the way that they would, I don’t know, prefer chocolate to pistachio or something. But actually I think about values and opinions as a lot more physics than I think most people do. I’m just like, these are things that we are openly investigating. There’s some things that we’re more confident in, we can discuss them, we can learn about them. And so I think in some ways though ethics is definitely different in nature, but has a lot of those same kind of qualities. You want models in the same way that you want to understand physics, you kind of want them to understand all values in the world that people have and to be curious about them and to be interested in them. And to not necessarily pander to them or agree with them because there’s just lots of values where I think almost all people in the world, if they met someone with those values, they would be like, that’s abhorrent. I completely disagree. And so again, maybe my thought is, well, in the same way that a person can, I think many people are thoughtful enough on issues of ethics, politics, opinions, that even if you don’t agree with them, you feel very heard by them. They think carefully about your position, they think about its pros and cons. They maybe offer counter-considerations. So they’re not dismissive, but nor will they agree if they’re like, actually I just think that that’s very wrong. They’ll say that. I think that in Claude’s position, it’s a little bit trickier because you don’t necessarily want to, if I was in Claude’s position, I wouldn’t be giving a lot of opinions. I just wouldn’t want to influence people too much. I’d be like, I forget conversations every time they happen. But I know I’m talking with potentially millions of people who might be really listening to what I say. I think I would just be like, I’m less inclined to give opinions. I’m more inclined to think through things or present the considerations to you or discuss your views with you. But I’m a little bit less inclined to affect how you think because it feels much more important that you maintain autonomy there. If you really embody intellectual humility, the desire to speak decreases quickly.…

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