It’s always unclear if proverbs actually work or if they are outdated, or an inside self-prophecy of those using them.
E.g. the set of those affected by TMMAT may hugely intersect with those who think it works. Which makes it objective but sort of self-bootstrapping. Isn’t it better to educate people about information and fallacies rather than protecting them from these for life.
> Isn’t it better to educate people about information and fallacies rather than protecting them from these for life.
The story itself is about someone attempting to educate their boss, and their boss subsequently getting fooled by it anyway — and the harm came to the one trying to do the educating, not the one who believed in the tiger.
I'm not sure it's even possible to fully remove this problem, even if we can minimise it — humans aren't able to access the ground truth of reality just by thinking carefully, we rely on others around us.
(For an extra twist: what if [the fear of misaligned AI] is itself the tiger?)
E.g. the set of those affected by TMMAT may hugely intersect with those who think it works. Which makes it objective but sort of self-bootstrapping. Isn’t it better to educate people about information and fallacies rather than protecting them from these for life.