Aleksi Liimatainen

Culture is adapted for learnability, transmissibility and recombinability for humans. To the extent AI and natural intelligence operate on similar principles, these adaptations should be expected to carry over when culture is used as a training dataset for AI. If so, an AI trained on culture would catch up to...

I'm experimenting with very short-form, compressed evocations of various mental adjustments. (Yes, I spend a lot of time on Twitter. Why do you ask?) For example, there's an adjunct to the idea of carving reality at the joints that could go something like this: "Reality is interconnected. When you carve...

Epistemic status: locating the hypothesis. I have my private confidence but you shouldn't take my word for it. I originally got the idea from this video interview of professor Richard A. Watson where he explains how learning networks could arise naturally and be an important factor in evolution. The meat...

It seems to have become apparent that existing social systems are functionally unaligned: organizational and market dynamics are oft cited as an important factor exacerbating AI danger. It seems to me that progress in civilizational alignment would be instrumental for increasing the chances of succesfully navigating the AI alignment challenge...