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Amanda Askell
Personal blog · askell.io/postsphilosophyai
Amanda Askell's personal blog at askell.io covers philosophy and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for an ethics argument: one commenter cites a 2020 post saying that risking normalizing a bad thing is a pro tanto reason against it, not an all-things-considered one. Another links the site alongside an interview on sycophancy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> One woman (I don't know her name) Amanda Askell https://askell.io/ The interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4&t=9773s
Comment linking /
on “Sycophancy in GPT-4o”Submitted Fairness, Evidence, and Predictive Equality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://askell.io/posts/2020/12/bad-isnt-good-enough Per this article, risking normalizing a bad thing is a pro tanto reason not to do something, but it's not an "all things considered" reason not to do something. As the sibling comment says, there are circumstances in which killing is widely considered acceptable. I think the ethical considerations here are complicated and worth serious investigation, although I do…
Comment linking /posts/2020/12/bad-isnt-good-enough
on “A campaign to make environmental destruction an international crime”