KvmanThinking

So, we have our big, evil AI, and it wants to recursively self-improve to superintelligence so it can start doing who-knows-what crazy-gradient-descent-reinforced-nonsense-goal-chasing. But if it starts messing with its own weights, it risks changing its crazy-gradient-descent-reinforced-nonsense-goals into different, even-crazier gradient-descent-reinforced-nonsense-goals which it would not endorse currently. If it wants to...

People who think of themselves as rationalists, but have not yet gotten good at rationality, may be susceptible to this. Basically, these people want to feel like they came up with or found out about a Super Awesome Thing that No One Does that Creates a Lot of Awesomeness with...

So I read this other post which talked about possible S-risk from an AI being aligned to human values. It contains the following statement: > Whoever controls the AI will most likely have somebody whose suffering they don’t care about, or that they want to enact, or that they have...

It's probably not possible to have a twin of me that does everything the same except experiences no qualia, i.e. you can predict 100% accurately, if you expose it to stimulus X and it does Y, that I would also do Y if I was exposed to stimulus X. But...

Using everything we know about human behavior, we could probably manage to get the media to pick up on us and our fears about AI, similarly to the successful efforts of early environmental activists? Have we tried getting people to understand that this is a problem? Have we tried emotional...

There is some part of me, which cannot help but feel special and better and different and unique when I look at the humans around me and compare them to myself. There is a strange narcissism I feel, and I don't like it. My System 2 mind is fully aware...