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It is not that uncommon for people to experience severe dementia and become extremely needy and rapidly lose many (or all) of the traits that people liked about them. Usually, people don't stop being loved just because they spend their days hurling obscenities at people, failing to preserve their own hygiene, and expressing zero affection.
I would guess that most parents do actually love their children unconditionally, and probably the majority of spouses unconditionally love their partners.
(Persistent identity is a central factor in how people relate to each other, so one can't really say that "it is only conditions that separate me from the worms.")
2Brainware.
Brains seem like the closest metaphor one could have for these. Lizards, insects, goldfish, and humans all have brains. We don't know how they work. They can be intelligent, but are not necessarily so. They have opaque convoluted processes inside which are not random, but often have unexpected results. They are not built, they are grown.
They're often quite effective at accomplishing something that would be difficult to do any other way. Their structure is based around neurons of some sort. Input, mystery processes, output. They're "mushy" and don't have clear lines, so much of their insides blur together.
AI companies are growing brainware in larger and larger scales, raising more powerful brainware. Want to understand why the chatbot did something? Try some new techniques for probing its brainware.
This term might make the topic feel more mysterious/magical to some than it otherwise would, which is usually something to avoid when developing terminology, but in this case, people have been treating something mysterious as not mysterious.
(The precise text, from "The Andalite Chronicles", book 3: "I have made right everything that can be made right, I have learned everything that can be learned, I have sworn not to repeat my error, and now I claim forgiveness.")
2Larry Page (according to Elon Musk), want AGI to take the world from humanity
(IIRC, Tegmark, who was present for the relevant event, has confirmed that Page had stated his position as described.)
1Ehhh, I get the impression that Schidhuber doesn't think of human extinction as specifically "part of the plan", but he also doesn't appear to consider human survival to be something particularly important relative to his priority of creating ASI. He wants "to build something smarter than myself, which will build something even smarter, et cetera, et cetera, and eventually colonize and transform the universe", and thinks that "Generally speaking, our best protection will be their lack of interest in us, because most species’ biggest enemy is their own kind. They will pay about as much attention to us as we do to ants."
I agree that he's not overtly "pro-extinction" in the way Rich Sutton is, but he does seem fairly dismissive of humanity's long-term future in general, while also pushing for the creation of an uncaring non-human thing to take over the universe, so...
Please link directly to the paper, rather than requiring readers to click their way through the substack post. Ideally, the link target would be on a more convenient site than academia.edu, which claims to require registration to read the content. (The content is available lower down, but the blocked "Download" buttons are confusing and misleading.)
When this person goes to post the answer to the alignment problem to LessWrong, they will have low enough accumulated karma that the post will be poorly received.
Does the author having lower karma actually cause posts to be received more poorly? The author's karma isn't visible anywhere on the post, or even in the hover-tooltip by the author's name. (One has to click through to the profile to find out.) Even if readers did know the author's karma, would that really cause people to not just judge it by its content? I would be surprised.
I found some of your posts to be really difficult to read. I still don't really know what some of them are even talking about, and on originally reading them I was not sure whether there was anything even making sense there.
Sorry if this isn't all that helpful. :/
The United States is an outlier in divorce statistics. In most places, the rate is nowhere near that high.