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That intuitively makes sense to me for everything except higher-level goal selection. If someone works at an NGO instead of FAANG because they want to do good f
by keenmaster 3y ago
That intuitively makes sense to me for everything except higher-level goal selection. If someone works at an NGO instead of FAANG because they want to do good for the world, how can that be explained in terms of prediction? If someone minimizes consumption to reduce global warming, how did prediction result in them caring about global warming? I picked those examples on purpose, because they run against some core instincts. Maybe they’re predicting what maximizes peer approval, which optimizes other outcomes too? (Jk :D )
- dwaltrip 3y agoYou are right, prediction doesn’t provide one with base motivations or drives. But those seem fundamentally different than raw intelligence. Your examples aren’t an issue I don’t think. To take one: efforts to minimize one’s consumption to combat global warming could fall in the “help tribe survival” bucket, which makes evolutionary sense as a base drive. And it seems like a reasonably “intelligent” response to that base drive — the predicted results seems positive.