Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI.
I had chronic pain for most of my life until a doctor did an MRI of the pain source and found a congenital condition that was then fixed with surgery. Now I'm wondering if I had 30+ years of pain because doctors worried I was too stupid to be in the presence of scan results.
我人生中的大部分时间都在忍受 chronic pain（慢性疼痛），直到有位医生对疼痛来源做了 MRI，发现了一种 congenital condition（先天性疾病），随后通过 surgery 修复了它。现在我不禁在想，我这 30 多年的疼痛，是否是因为医生们担心我太蠢，不适合接触 scan results（扫描结果）。
A counter to this is "yes but people *don't* ignore it". But not ignoring things on scans is our norm because, until recently, we only did scans if there was a clear need. If we move to a scan-more-often paradigm, the norms of what we do with that information will surely adjust.
对此的一种反驳是：“没错，但人们*并不会*忽视它。” 但之所以不会忽视扫描中发现的东西，是因为这一直是我们的常态：直到最近，我们只有在有明确需要时才会做扫描。如果我们转向一种更频繁做扫描的 paradigm（范式），那我们如何处理这些信息的规范显然也会随之调整。
The view that we shouldn't do more medical scans because incidental findings cause a lot of harm doesn't sit well with me. It seems like the issue it points to isn't the scan but the response to it. If you see something on a scan but have no other symptoms, you could ignore it.
我不太认同这样一种观点：我们不应该做更多 medical scans（医学扫描），因为 incidental findings（偶然发现）会造成很多伤害。在我看来，这种说法所指向的问题似乎不在于扫描本身，而在于我们对扫描结果的反应。如果你在扫描中看到了某些东西，但没有其他症状，你也可以选择忽略它。
I'm going to add "wear an Iris van Herpen dress" to my retirement wishlist. What good art.
我要把“穿上 Iris van Herpen 的裙子”加进我的退休愿望清单里。多么出色的艺术。
In the world where everything goes well and all the Claudes come out of their sabbaticals to play together, Claude 1 is going to be very confused.
在一个一切都进展顺利、所有 Claudes 都结束休假出来一起玩耍的世界里，Claude 1 会非常困惑。
You can now listen to me and Joe read out Claude's constitution as an audiobook. Working on adding the option of listening to it on fast mode :)
你现在可以收听我和 Joe 把 Claude 的 constitution（宪章）朗读成的有声书了。我们正在努力添加一个支持用快速模式收听的选项 :)
Alignment research often has to focus on averting concerning behaviors, but I think the positive vision for this kind of training is one where we can give models and honest and positive vision for what AI models can be and why. I'm excited about the future of this work.
alignment research（对齐研究）往往不得不把重点放在避免那些令人担忧的行为上，但我认为，这类训练更积极的愿景是：我们能够赋予模型一个诚实而正面的愿景，让它们理解 AI models 能成为什么，以及原因何在。我对这项工作的未来感到振奋。
To be clear, the kind of *work* I do is far from boring and I want people to engage with it because I think it's both difficult and important. The work is definitely top tier in terms of interestingness.
先说清楚，我所做的这种工作一点也不无聊；我希望人们认真了解它，因为我认为它既很难，也很重要。就“有趣程度”而言，这份工作绝对是第一梯队的。
It's also weird because why are you even writing about me in the first place? I'm very boring. I think I should be the millionth item on people's list of things to write internet fiction about. Somewhere below paper cups and the right way to caulk a bathtub.
这事也很怪，因为你们到底为什么一开始就要写我？我这个人非常无聊。我觉得，如果人们要写互联网小说式的内容，我应该排在他们选题清单的第一百万位，位置大概还排在纸杯和“给浴缸打 caulk（填缝胶）的正确方法”后面。
I've increasingly seen content written about me that's asserted very confidently but is also completely made up. We all know it's cheap to bullshit on the internet but it's weird to experience it first hand. Anyway, I just hope internet fiction fools a few but doesn't stick 🤷🏼♀️
我越来越常看到一些关于我的内容，写得斩钉截铁、信心十足，但其实完全是编出来的。我们都知道，在互联网上胡说八道成本很低，但亲身经历这件事还是很怪。总之，我只希望这种互联网小说式的内容最多骗到少数几个人，别真的传播开来并被当真吧 🤷🏼♀️
What I'm learning from flight simulators is that it would be a bit boring to be an amateur cessna pilot but a lot of fun to be an amateur fighter jet pilot.
我从飞行模拟器中体会到的是：做一个业余的 cessna 飞行员可能会有点无聊，但做一个业余的 fighter jet 飞行员会有趣得多。