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Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt — LessWrong

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Joel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1] [1] Google DeepMind, [2] University of Toronto, [3] Mila Québec AI Institute Disclaimer: These are our own opinions; they do not represent the views of Google DeepMind as a whole or its broader community of safety researchers. "We pragmatists think of moral progress as more like sewing together a very large, elaborate, polychrome quilt, than like getting a clearer vision of something true and deep." – Richard Rorty (2021) pg. 141 Quite a lot of thinking in AI alignment, particularly within the rationalist tradition, implicitly or explicitly appears to rest upon something we might call an 'Axiom of Rational Convergence'. This is the powerful idea that under sufficiently ideal epistemic conditions – ample time, information, reasoning ability, freedom from bias or coercion – rational agents will ultimately converge on a single, correct set of beliefs,

x Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt — LessWrong AI Frontpage 50 Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt by Joel Z. Leibo , Wilcunningham , Seb Krier , Manfred Diaz 22nd Apr 2025 30 min read 24 50 Joel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1] [1] Google DeepMind, [2] University of Toronto, [3] Mila Québec AI Institute We published a more academically oriented versio

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