If you have arguments that may support intractability of search for global optimum, in the sense of preventing formation of ethical singleton, I'd like to hear them.
ETHICS
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Omega Point and AI: Existential Ethics Beyond Human Control
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Even if there is an optimal strategy, we cannot prove that we are destined to become part of the Omega point; earth might be just a food reservoir that gets harvested by something much bigger, and our ethical aspirations are for naught.
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Ethics, Behavior, and Evolutionary Telos: Thomist Sustainability Framework
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I think that ethics is instrumental to informing behavior, and behavior is instrumental to achieving desirable world states, evolutionary telos applies, and we can probably refine the Thomist idea of sustainability + complexity as goodness.
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AI Progress Brings Opportunity Despite Career Disruption Fears
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I'm still excited about where it's all headed while being understanding of those who are scared by it. I'm hoping to bring less fear and encourage excitement but I also realize many career paths will be obsolete as a result.
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Leahy’s Strategy to Halt AI Evolution and Prevent Replacement
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Leahy’s plan is to stop evolution, because he is afraid to get replaced by something better
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Redefining Magic: Write Access to Reality’s Fabric
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My operational definition of magic is “write access to the fabric of reality”. Some people mean “something that cannot be done”. Neither interpretation makes sense?
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Understanding LLM Behavior: Why Experts Still Have Knowledge Gaps
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A reminder that even the best experts on LLMs don’t really understand all their behaviors (in this case, why AIs often seem a bit preachy & condescending). Lots left to learn.
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Google CEO Pichai Calls Gemini’s Responses on Race Politics Unacceptable
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"Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff the generative artificial intelligence bot Gemini’s responses to user queries about race, politics, and current events were “completely unacceptable.” Washington Examiner bit.ly/3SWVwL8
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Understanding Consistent Behavior Across Independent Language Models
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I’d love to understand this better too… I thought it was just a quirk of the specifics of labeling instructions, but then multiple (what I think should be mostly independent) language models seem to all do this.