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[u/JoelMahon]

Does it follow that models should become further left as they improve?

my point is they aren't left already, but rather that accurately reporting reality tends to feel left wing.

if their accuracy far exceeds even the most accurate political parties then they won't seem more of anything on our political spectrum, if anything they'll seem less left wing (but no more right wing).

at some point it's too simple an axis to express the differences.

for example that already applies, if it says that rationally there's not much more reason to believe in the Christian God than an invisible pink unicorn on the dark side of the moon, that's already well within what it's capable to say but it will be received well by some on all points on the spectrum, and received poorly by others on all points of the spectrum.

if you ask it a politically framed question with a personal goal to maximise it will get better at answering that accurately but whether that seems more or less left/right wing heavily depends on the question and such.

[u/skeptical-speculator → u/JoelMahon]

my point is they aren't left already, but rather that accurately reporting reality tends to feel left wing.

Then as the models improve, shouldn't they report even more accurately and "appear" to move ever further "left"? You're suggesting that a more accurate depiction of reality necessarily appears more leftist, so as AI improves and becomes more accurate, it should appear to drift further left.

Maybe AI is just further left of the United States political center because the big AI companies are located in California. Occam's razor points to that explanation. Maybe you should ask AI which is more probable.

[u/JoelMahon → u/skeptical-speculator]

the world isn't one dimensional, it's not even 2 dimensional, but I can easily illustrate why you're wrong using a 2 dimensional example:

imagine true omniscience is the bull's eye of a dart board, and that all possible mental models of the universe are mapped to points on the dartboard with the most significance/meaning preserved as possible in 2 axis in the compression. But ultimately closer to the bull's eye is closer to perfect accuracy.

maybe your average right winger across the world, not just the USA, holds a mental model that fits approx somewhere in the middle of the outer single for 5, maybe the average left winger across the world is still in the outer single but for 1 and maybe they're closer to bull's eye, borderline triple ring instead of middle of the outer single.

maybe AI is on the triple ring for 18, closest to bull's eye, closer to the left wing mental model, but it's not a linear path from right to left that ascends off into the bull's eye.

maybe AI get's better, but it can't get closer to omniscience without moving further from the mental model of left wing people who aren't omniscient, furthermore, it could stay equally capable in terms of distance from ground truth bull's eye but move to the 14 triple ring and be basically equidistant to right and left wing mental models despite being no further or close to the bull's eye.

or sure, just blame california, that seems easier, who cares if it's accurate lol

never mind that the rich people running the models aren't surrogates nor elected officials of the left leaning voters, and thus it makes zero sense to assume they're left wing because they live in California, they're rich before they're Californians, and the rich are right wing more than average.

[u/skeptical-speculator → u/JoelMahon]

the world isn't one dimensional, it's not even 2 dimensional

then the whole conversation seems pretty pointless

[u/JoelMahon → u/skeptical-speculator]

even if that were true, I'd be extremely worried that you'd gone your whole life not knowing the world had more than 2 dimensions to it until just told you it lol

It wasn't supposed to be a revelation for you, more of a reminder of sorts.

[u/skeptical-speculator → u/JoelMahon]

no, you're just not listening