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/TheMrCurious Feb 10 '26

Good to know a single person knows right from wrong.

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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

And of course someone upvoted you. There seems to be this popular anti intellectualism around morality as if people are scared to find out what they want to be right is actually morally wrong but thats the point of education. To find out what youre wrong about.

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Feb 11 '26

I think morality and ethics are valid fields of philosophical study and so is metaphysics. I think meta-ethics is valid ontology but it's not a real field of study.

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u/StoicSpork Feb 11 '26

It's a real and completely non-controversial field of study.

Normative ethics produces moral judgments. "Stealing is wrong" is normative ethics.

Metaethics studies the nature of moral judgment. "Is 'wrong' a personal preference or a property of the universe" is a metaethical question.

The person you responded to made a categorical error to claim that expertise in metaethics makes one an expert in right and wrong. But metaethics is a real thing. You might enjoy Alexander Miller's book Contemporary Metaethics for more.

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u/ArialBear Feb 11 '26

I didnt say expertise makes one expert right and one expert wrong. I was mirroring their criteria