Your article is a great read!
In my view, we can categorize scientists into two broad types: technician scientists, who focus on refining and perfecting existing theories, and creative scientists, who make generational leaps forward with groundbreaking ideas. No theory is ever 100% correct—each is simply an attempt to better explain a phenomenon in a way that’s useful to us.
Take Newton, for example. His theory of gravity was revolutionary, introducing concepts no one had thought of before—it was a generational achievement. But then Einstein came along, asking why objects with mass attract one another. Newton's equations could predict gravitational forces accurately, but they didn’t explain the underlying cause. Einstein’s theory of relativity made... (read more)
This behavioral training method using positive and negative reinforcement, is something that I would recommend you use with animals and children before they can speak and reason. Our brains do this type of direct training, through our built in pleasure and pain feedback. Once the child is able to talk and reason, then it isn't very effective at all especially with complex choices like not doing drugs with friends when they are away from the parents. You are effectively trying to enforce your ideas and beliefs on to child's and taking away their own autonomy and desire to make their own decisions.
The most effective way to persuade a child about your point... (read more)
This review paper aims to examine and explain the root cause of schizophrenia through a theoretical model based on Information Technology (IT) processing principles. The model conceptualizes the brain’s processing ability and capacity in terms of IT processing loads. Chronic trauma and stress degrade the brain’s processing capacity, leading to systemic neural overload. This sustained overload diminishes the brain’s ability to process information and sensory data effectively, resulting in the hallucinations, delusions, and psychosis characteristic of schizophrenia.
The likelihood of developing mental illness, including schizophrenia, can be described through an equation that compares the brain’s processing capacity to the load placed upon it. A value of 1 indicates a state of homeostasis, where... (read 553 more words →)
Hi, Steve passed me this interesting link. Take a look at my explanation videos for schizophrenia and see if they relate to you. I cover this hypersensitivity in depth as it relates to my "theory".
My thesis is this:
The model conceptualizes the brain’s processing ability and capacity in terms of IT processing loads. Chronic trauma and stress degrade the brain’s processing capacity, leading to systemic neural overload. This sustained overload diminishes the brain’s ability to process information and sensory data effectively, resulting in the hallucinations, delusions, and psychosis characteristic of schizophrenia.
My video links covering the theory are on my channel, here is the main one - if you don't like the AI images or audio, I also recorded a similar explanation just of myself which is below:
This is a thoughtful and well written piece. I agree with much of the technical framing around outer alignment, inner alignment, scalable oversight, and the real risks that only show up once systems operate in long-horizon, real-world environments. It is one of the better breakdowns I have read of why today’s apparent success with alignment should not make us complacent about what comes next.
That said, my personal view is more pessimistic at a deeper level. I don’t think alignment is fundamentally solvable in the long run in the sense of permanent alignment. I see it as structurally similar to an ant trying to align the human who steps on its hill, or... (read 396 more words →)