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I am an existentialist: I am perfectly comfortable in a world with no inherent meaning. Sheer existence and action brings me joy. I spend hours of my day tinkering with computers not because of utility, but for the pleasure it brings. I
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Fundamentally, I think AI alignment is an ML problem I disagree and think this is one of the great fallacies. The current predominant view of alignment theory is that we need to align the AI with humanities "values". This makes
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If AI successfully progresses to AGI, then that becomes a potential reality. However, from the current point until then is a vast gap of uncertainty. There is a lot of focus on creating an "aligned" AGI. Theory being that it will
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We need to ban TikTok because they might be spying on you. Solution: a bill that allows us to spy on you unconditionally for all activities, anywhere, anytime for any reason. Also, we will be immune to FOIA or any kind of oversight.
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The problem is that human intent will likely not be enough. Human intent even fails for humans. We set goals and objectives for others that are accomplished by means we did not intend. This is ok for humans, as none of us are all powerful a
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The premise is China is spying on US citizens. I suppose we don't want competition when it comes to invasion of privacy. Therefore, we ban it so only US companies can spy on US citizens.
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"It may be that one of humanities assets becomes one of our greatest detriments in this context. There are a lot of very intelligent individuals involved in the creation of AGI. This might seem contradictory, in that they should be mor
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Excellent. It will be interesting if this trend continues. Devices that you actually own instead of they owning you.
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It is a moat to be the first. The question is can you defend that moat.
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It will be interesting to see how long anyone can dominate. AI might actually result in actually the opposite. Meaning that the era of years and decades of dominance is not sustainable any longer. Why would this be? Because AI allows you to
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I think the issue is that such contemplations are taking a very large leap forward over a moat that we don't know yet how to cross. The moat being, assuming we could create a "safe" ASI, the transition from where we are now m
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I expect there is going to be a crisis of finding meaning. As much as we like to rid ourselves of "work", struggle is also a part of human experience in which we find value. Furthermore, AI will not contain itself to only jobs. It
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Yes, they may be the last to go, but it is just a matter of time theoretically. The problem is that "having something to do", doesn't stop at jobs. AI is consuming everything including creative spaces. There is going to be a
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I'm not sure anything can keep up. Having nearly unlimited utility also means that it has nearly unlimited surface for vulnerability exploits both for itself and used to attack other external systems. We have unknown emergent behavior,
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"Copycats will inevitably become more common. The more successful a software is, the more people will attempt to copy it. Companies will then have to rely on network effects (such as social networks and marketplaces), distribution , a
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I agree, most are missing this aspect. If AI progresses as the proponents assume, continually exponential, then this is different than all prior disruptions. It is accelerating technological evolution. Meaning there is no island of stabilit
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However, "the future technology is completely unpredictable and we don't understand it" is probably a fairly good reason we will only make worse mistakes in that regard going forward.
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There are two reasons we do this. First, emotional, which many suspect will not be present in the AI. Second, because it benefits us due to the ecosystem, of which is likely to be irrelevant to the AI. Finally, when there is an order of mag
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Yes, most predictions never happen because there is a feedback loop at a certain point, people will change behavior to prevent the worst outcomes. I hope that will be the case here. However, what makes this challenging, is that the pace is
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Thank you for the appreciation!
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Corporations, religions, governments etc are just an amalgam of human values and behavior that results in the effects we perceive. Yet, AI researchers most grand theory of successful alignment relies on simply applying our values to the AI
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Unfortunately, I think this is a losing battle. This is just a narrow representation of what is to come. Everything positioned against AI will be a losing battle. It is a skill/creativity replicator and that concept breaks the existi
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"An uncontrollable intelligence" already describes the source of a lot of our current problems... that is, ourselves. Yes, precisely. One of the best quotes I've seen was "Demonstrably unfriendly natural intelligence s
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Yes, additionally I find it somewhat ironic that AI researchers talk a lot about "power seeking" behavior of AI as a primary concern. However, seemingly overlooked, AI is itself power and we should expect that "power seeking&
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I actually agree with his perspective. AI is simply a another huge leap in technology that directly affects social order. We only need to look at the effects social media has had on society and just amplify them to perceive what may be like
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We are going to be drowning in a sea of autogenerated noise. I think the early excitement is going to fade into a bit of frustration and misery. It is very difficult to reason about the future as it becomes even more unpredictable each day.
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Why AI Alignment might be impossible(old.reddit.com)
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The more you succeed in your career the less choices you have because you end up at bigger companies I discovered this effect as well. I always wanted to move up so I could make more choices about projects and technology. Ironically, as y
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> but they may do a hell of a job destroying society. Agreed. I feel they might actually become so disruptive that they interrupt the progress towards AGI/ASI. When it comes to the actual topic of alignment for AGI/ASI. Under t
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Sure, but it was still possible as there were communication formats that have been useful such as audio and video recordings good enough for evidence in court. That is about to be lost. Soon the fakes will not be distinguishable from realit

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