Either generally-human-level AI will work internally like humans work internally, or not. If generally-human-level AI works like humans, the...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Novelty can be coarsely described as one of: fitting within a preexisting system; constituting a shift of the system; creating a new paralle...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Are there unbounded modes of thinking that are systemically, radically distinct from each other in relevant ways?| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Suppose we want to observe the thoughts of a mind in order to detect whether it's making its way towards a plan to harm us, and ideally also...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A gemini model is a kind of model that's especially relevant for minds modeling minds.| tsvibt.blogspot.com
I don't know how to define control or even point at it except as a word-cloud, so it's probably wanting to be refactored. The point of talki...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Possible advanced AIs that aren't self-modifying, aren't self-improving, and where we know and understand all the component algorithms.| arbital.com
To come to know that a mind will have some specified ultimate effect on the world, first come to know, narrowly and in full, what about the mind makes it have effects on the world.| .
A mental element has to be open to revision, and so it has to be treated as though it might be revised.| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Novelty is understanding that is new to a mind, that doesn't readily correspond or translate to something already in the mind. We want AGI i...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A mind has some effects on the world. What determines which effects a mind has? To eventually create minds that have large effects that we s...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A high-level confusion that I have that seems to be on the way towards understanding alignment, is the relationship between values and under...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Suppose that we use the universal prior for sequence prediction, without regard for computational complexity. I think that the result is going to be really weird, and that most people don’t a…| Ordinary Ideas
Explicitness is out-foldedness. An element of a mind is explicit when it is available to relate to other elements when suitable.| tsvibt.blogspot.com
To communicate, it's convenient to code information in words and numbers. Words are discrete, so they're well-suited to expressing binaries:...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A very strong mind is produced by a trajectory of creativity. A trajectory of creativity that produces a very strong mind is hard to separat...| tsvibt.blogspot.com