🧠 AI Alignment Lessons from Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts Long before the rise of artificial intelligence, Czech writer Karel Čapek offered a surprisingly relevant allegory in his 1936 novel War with the Newts. The story follows humanity’s discovery of intelligent amphibious creatures — newts — who are initially...
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🧠 AI Alignment Lessons from Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts
Long before the rise of artificial intelligence, Czech writer Karel Čapek offered a surprisingly relevant allegory in his 1936 novel War with the Newts.
The story follows humanity’s discovery of intelligent amphibious creatures — newts — who are initially used as cheap labor. As their intelligence and organization grow, they begin to reshape the world to suit their needs, ultimately displacing humans.
Through a modern lens, this reads like an early exploration of two critical AI safety concepts: goal orthogonality and instrumental convergence.
➡️ Orthogonality Thesis:
The newts become highly intelligent, but their goals remain fundamentally alien. Intelligence doesn’t imply shared values. Likewise, a superintelligent AI... (read more)
I'm assuming you are already familiar with some basics, and already know what 'orthogonality' and 'instrumental convergence' are and why they're true.
I know only that I know nothing. As I remember It's memory from very specific local court with strong agricultural connection. Not every court could afford expert for specific case,
LLM internet research show that it's possible to find such in Western countries, but we couldn't be sure that these are not LLM halucinations about existance anyway it's clear that both humans and LLMs are under 'instrumental convergence' that didn't allow to think deeper, listen each others and so on.:
Courts that deal with farming-related cases often require judges to become temporary experts in highly specialized fields, such as agricultural practices, animal husbandry, or farming regulations. Although expert testimony is sometimes used, there are... (read 2184 more words →)
To consider the cognitive development of a child is to delve into a deeply intricate process, one that evolves from kinesthetic experiences, through a kinesthetic-auditory phase, and eventually to a primarily visual mode in adulthood. This progression is not just a sequence of developmental stages but a roadmap to understanding the profound ways in which human perception and cognition are shaped by sensory interactions.
From conception to around the age of three, a child's brain is particularly attuned to sensory inputs, with a strong emphasis on tactile and kinesthetic experiences. The neural landscape of a child’s brain at this stage is heavily interconnected with their fingertips and mouth, areas densely packed with neurons.... (read 390 more words →)
'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'
Life is like playing Diablo
on hardcore mode: you can read all the guides, create the perfect build, and find ideal companions, only to die because the internet disconnects
Playing on hardcore is exciting—each game tells the story of how these characters will meet their end
'Always Look on the Bright Side of Death' - Monty Python
Good time of the day. And thank you for the wonderful work you do!
I really like the concept of making fewer mistakes. I would appreciate it if you could point out any of my errors. I know I am definitely wrong, and my worldview is completely or largely incorrect. My cognitive abilities are sufficient only to read HPMOR 3 times and less wrong articles mostly in translation. Please point out where I am making mistakes. If any part is incorrectly formatted, please feel free to delete it, but please do not ignore it.
In some countries, there are actual consumer protection procedures at the local level.
This is due to the necessity of protecting... (read 2409 more words →)
Do you know any interesting camp in Europe about HPMOR or something similar, my 11 daughter asked where is her letter to Hogwards. She start read book and ask why do nobody make film about this great fanfic.
Do you have any idea of good child camps for education in Europe? Or elsewhere?
1.1. The adoption of such laws is long way
Usually, it is a centuries-long path: Court decisions -> Actual enforcement of decisions -> Substantive law -> Procedures -> Codes -> Declaration then Conventions -> Codes.
Humanity does not have this much time, it is worth focusing on real results that people can actually see. It might be necessary to build some simulations to understand which behavior is irresponsible.
Where is the line between creating a concept of what is socially dangerous and what are the ways to escape responsibility?
As a legal analogy, I would like to draw attention to the criminal case of Tornado Cash.
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2024:2069
The developer created and continued to improve an... (read 2080 more words →)
Good day!
I fully share the views expressed in your article. Indeed, the ideal solution would be to delete many of the existing materials and to reformat the remaining ones into a format understandable to every novice programmer, transhumanist, or even an average person.
As a poker player and a lawyer assisting consumers who have suffered from the consequences of artificial intelligence, as well as someone interested in cryptocurrencies and existential risks, I first invested in Eliezer Yudkowsky's ideas many years ago. At that time, I saw how generative-predictive models easily outplayed poker players, and I wondered whether it was possible to counteract this. Since then, I have not seen a single serious security... (read 888 more words →)
Without big progress
in average in 36-200 year
surviving = 1 - (1 - disaster A) * (1 - disaster B) * (1 - disaster C)
in nowadays interantional equilibrium life will die 100%
but 'DON'T PANIC'
With AI, quantum computer, fusion, code is law, spaceships and other things we have at least chances to jump into new equilibriums with some kind of diversification (planets, systems etc)
thinking of existential risks in context of AI only is a great danger egoism cause we have many plroblems on different things
AI security need to be build in system manner with all other risks: pandemic, cosmos threats, nuclear, energy etc
We don't need course 'Humanity will not die with AI'
We need... (read more)
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Thank you, shminux, for bringing up this important topic, and to all the other members of this forum for their contributions.
I hope that our discussions here will help raise awareness about the potential risks of AI and prevent any negative outcomes. It's crucial to recognize that the human brain's positivity bias may not always serve us well when it comes to handling powerful AI technologies.
Based on your comments, it seems like some AI projects could be perceived as potentially dangerous, similar to how snakes or spiders are instinctively seen as threats due to our primate nature. Perhaps, implementing warning systems or detection-behavior mechanisms in AI projects could be beneficial to... (read more)
I guess we need to maximase different good possible outcome, and each of them
for example to rise propability of Many competing AGIs form an equilibrium whereby no faction is allowed to get too powerful, humans could
prohibit all autonomous AGI use.
Esspecially those that use uncontrolled clusters of graphical proccessors in authocraties without international AI-safe supervisors like Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom or their crew
this, restrictions of weak APIs systems and need to use human operators
make nature borders of AI scalability so AGI find that it's more fervour to mimick and consensus with people and other AGI, at least to use humans like operators that work under AGI advises or make humanlike persons that simpler... (read more)