I just finished watching Brave. I was ordered to watch it, as all Disney films Must Be Known, but had been putting it off for a while. It’s pretty much what one could expect of a Disney film - the princess has duties, but wants to live her own life, and over the course of the film both she learns the value of tradition, and her parents learn the value of letting teenagers have their way.| ahiru.pl
I’m working through Metaphors We Live By, an exploration of the role of metaphor in human cognition and language. The central theme of the book is: [..] human thought processes are largely metaphorical. [..] Metaphors as linguistic expressions are possible precisely because there are metaphors in a person’s conceptual system. They provide examples of conceptual metaphors which ground our experience– ARGUMENT IS WAR, HAPPY IS UP, THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS– and examples from everyday langu...| evanlh.com
Perfect alignment just means that AI systems won’t want to deliberately disregard their designers' intent; it's not enough to ensure AI is good for the world.| Planned Obsolescence