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Religious Persistence: A Missing Primitive for Robust Alignment 2025-04-14T22:03:45.868Z

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Comment by lauriewired on Religious Persistence: A Missing Primitive for Robust Alignment · 2025-04-15T23:03:32.997Z · LW · GW

I think your critique hinges on a misunderstanding triggered by the word "religion."  You (mis)portray my position as advocating for religion’s worse epistemic practices; in reality I’m trying to highlight durable architectural features when instrumental reward shaping fails.

The claim “religion works by damaging rationality” is a strawman.  My post is about borrowing design patterns that might cultivate robust alignment.  It does not require you to accept the premise that religion thrives exclusively by “preventing good reasoning”.

I explicitly state to examine the structural concept of intrinsic motivations that remain stable in OOD scenarios; not religion itself.  Your assessment glosses over these nuances; a mismodeling of my actual position.