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0th Person and 1st Person Logic — LessWrong

Mar 10, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Adele Lopez |Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel |Nate Showell

Truth values in classical logic have more than one interpretation. In 0th Person Logic, the truth values are interpreted as True and False. In 1st Person Logic, the truth values are interpreted as Here and Absent relative to the current reasoner. Importantly, these are both useful modes of reasoning that can coexist in a logical embedded agent.
What are the known difficulties with this alignment approach? — LessWrong

Feb 11, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Adele Lopez |Charlie Steiner

There's nothing stopping the AI from developing its own world model (or if there is, it's not intelligent enough to be much more useful than whatever process created your starting world model). This will allow it to model itself in more detail than you were able to put in, and to optimize its own workings as is instrumentally convergent. This will result in an intelligence explosion due to recursive self-improvement.
Don't sleep on Coordination Takeoffs — LessWrong

Jan 27, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Adele Lopez |Seth Herd

It's important to remember that the culture we grew up in is deeply nihilistic at its core. People expect Moloch, assume Moloch as a given, even defer to Moloch. If you read enough about business and international affairs (not news articles, those don't count, not for international affairs at least, I don't know about business), and then read about dath ilan, it becomes clear that our world is ruled by Moloch cultists who nihilistically optimized for career advancement.
Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible — LessWrong

Dec 12, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Adele Lopez |Scott Alexander |William C Stanford

TL;DR versionIn the course of my life, there have been a handful of times I discovered an idea that changed the way I thought about where our species is headed. The first occurred when I picked up Nick Bostrom’s book “superintelligence” and realized that AI would utterly transform the world. The second was when I learned about embryo selection and how it could change future generations.
Views on when AGI comes and on strategy to reduce existential risk — LessWrong

Jul 8, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Mateusz Bagiński |Adele Lopez |Roman Leventov |Ben Pace

Summary: AGI isn't super likely to come super soon. People should be working on stuff that saves humanity in worlds where AGI comes in 20 or 50 years, in addition to stuff that saves humanity in worlds where AGI comes in the next 10 years. Thanks to Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, Abram Demski, Daniel Kokotajlo, Cleo Nardo, Alex Zhu, and Sam Eisenstat for related conversations.
Contra Yudkowsky on AI Doom — LessWrong

Apr 24, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Steven Byrnes |Adele Lopez |Gordon Worley |Donald Hobson

Eliezer Yudkowsky predicts doom from AI: that humanity faces likely extinction in the near future (years or decades) from a rogue unaligned superintelligent AI system. Moreover he predicts that this is the default outcome, and AI alignment is so incredibly difficult that even he failed to solve it. EY is an entertaining and skilled writer, but do not confuse rhetorical writing talent for depth and breadth of technical knowledge.
There are no coherence theorems — LessWrong

Feb 20, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Adele Lopez |Ben Pace |Charlie Steiner |Pablo Villalobos

[Written by EJT as part of the CAIS Philosophy Fellowship. Thanks to Dan for help posting to the Alignment Forum]For about fifteen years, the AI safety community has been discussing coherence arguments. In papers and posts on the subject, it’s often written that there exist 'coherence theorems' which state that, unless an agent can be represented as maximizing expected utility, that agent is liable to pursue strategies that are dominated by some other available strategy.