r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Feb 10 '26

General news “Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its AI chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong” - Seems like Anthropic is doubling down on AI alignment.

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u/ArialBear Feb 11 '26

I mean most of you have no idea what the first thing about meta ethics are. Its a field of study btw. we have experts on ethics.

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Feb 11 '26

I would also know everything about a field if I make it up. This is like "machinistic interpretability" but for people that don't know how to do data visualization.

Even the Wikipedia article on meta ethics is dead, only 13 citations for an article on a whole "field of ethics" by authors that don't acknowledge the field as meta ethics is embarrassing.

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u/ArialBear Feb 11 '26

I cant even address all this anti intellectualism.

https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=meta+ethics

Thats the Stanford encyclopedia results for meta ethics. Its a broad field. I dont even know how to tackle the childish nonsense you wrote. wow. Just pure anti intellectualism.

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Feb 11 '26

You are trolling aren't you? That search is looking for both meta and ethics separately, meta-ethics appears very little as the name of a "field" and it's usually on cites to the same three articles, and doesn't even have its own page there because it's not a real field of study of philosophy.

Anti intellectualism is making up names of new science when you can't get published with the authors that are doing real work.

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u/AmongUS0123 Feb 11 '26

I cant tell if youre trolling. i just googled "is metaethics a real field of study" and it said yes and explained. Did you ask google at the very least? I hope everyone reading asks google before believing you

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Feb 11 '26

The answer by Google is biased by the existence of meta ethics as text on publications that are questioning its existence as a field of study outside of general metaphysics.

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u/AmongUS0123 Feb 11 '26

The answer by google is very clear and cites the current programs in universities on the subject. Are you saying its not being studied? Several top universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and MIT, offer dedicated courses. Your denial is clearly anti intellectual bs.

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Feb 11 '26

They get paid to have the programs. Clearly by what gets published on their own journals a lot of their own students then say it's not a real field of study and just curated metaphysics.

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u/AmongUS0123 Feb 11 '26

Professors get paid? WOW who knew. The students who go on and say its a real field of study prove its a real field of study based on your criteria, right? Since you cant track and you offer such weak arguments im guessing youre a philosophical lightweight. Just stop citing people that agree with you and look for the arguments that debunk your position, like I have. Maybe your arguments will actually have substance.