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Non-Coercive Motivation
Changing your Mind With Memory Reconsolidation
30Matt Goldenberg's Short Form Feed
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Alignment as uploading with more steps
Matt Goldenberg1d30

It's true our preferences get more stable as we get older but I still think over the course of decades they change. We're typically bad at predicting what we'll want in 10 years even at much older ages. 

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Alignment as uploading with more steps
Matt Goldenberg2d30

For instance I bet the you of 4 or 5 would want you to spend your money on much more candy and toys than the you of today. 

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Alignment as uploading with more steps
Matt Goldenberg3d30

I doubt this, it's very hard to achieve giving developmental issues with stuff like shifting hormones 

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Alignment as uploading with more steps
Matt Goldenberg3d50

but we usually endorse the way that our values change over time, so this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

 

I'm pretty skeptical of this, of course it seems that way because we are the ones with the new values, but I think this is like 70%  just a tautology of valuing valuing the things we currently value, and 20% a psychological thing that justifies our decisions in retrospect and make them seem more consistent than they are, and only 10% any sort of actual consistency effect where if I asked myself at time x if it endorses the value changes I've made at future time y, past me would say "yes, y is better than x".

Also, I find it hard to imagine hating my past self so much that I would want to kill him or allow him to be killed. 

 

I could easily imagine a future version of myself after e.g. hundreds of years of value drift that I would see as horrifying and no longer consider them me.

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Alignment as uploading with more steps
Matt Goldenberg3d52

I'm pretty sure that the me from 10 years ago is aligned to different values than the me of today, so I suspect a copy running much faster than me would quickly diverge. 

And that's just a normal speed running version of me one that experienced the world much faster would have such a different experience of the world, as a small example conversations would be more boring but also I'd be more skilled at them, so things would diverge much faster. 

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High-level actions don’t screen off intent
Matt Goldenberg3d20

Only if your ethics are purely utilitarian. 

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[Anthropic] A hacker used Claude Code to automate ransomware
Matt Goldenberg20d914

it seems like the operations were ongoing, and they disrupted them.to me it appears a normal and legitimate use of the word.

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[Anthropic] A hacker used Claude Code to automate ransomware
Matt Goldenberg20d82

i doubt this very much, one of the most consistent trends we see is that once a capability is available in any model, the cost of inference and training an open source model goes down over time.

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A speculation on enlightenment
Matt Goldenberg22d22

In other words, classically, enlightenment would be much more in the direction of removing the causes and conditions of consciousness - see E. G. dependent origination 

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A speculation on enlightenment
Matt Goldenberg22d42

Fwiw I think this is close to reversing the udnerstanding of enlightenment

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12Good ways to monetarily profit from the increasing demand for power?
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8Mechanism for feature learning in neural networks and backpropagation-free machine learning models
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9Peter Thiel on Technological Stagnation and Out of Touch Rationalists
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25Non-Coercive Perfectionism
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28Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?
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62Why Productivity Systems Don't Stick
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79How to Write Like Kaj Sotala
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29When Gears Go Wrong
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11Reconsolidation Through Questioning
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13Reconsolidation Through Experience
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