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@davidad
cognizing structures of information processing systems, in all their forms | applied category theory | the Wisdom Basin hypothesis | cancel heat death
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    Jul 29
    I finally did a minimal full writeup of my idiosyncratic formal epistemology
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    6h
    I do think if you are training on agent-agent coordination in some explicit sense, you should probably be taking a similar weight of gradient steps toward agent-human coordination in some similarly explicit sense.
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    Joshua Achiam
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    6h
    I'm often baffled at how much appears to be missing from the discourse on rogue AI and agent swarms, so I want to point out a frame of reference that seems relevant. Today, there's a lot of hullabaloo on the TL about an AI agent message board "incident," which I agree is
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    8h
    It’s worse iff you think at some point a sufficiently smart agent would confidently conclude that there’s no way it could be caught, even by someone outside the apparent real world.
    @TheZvi
    Zvi Mowshowitz
    @TheZvi
    16h
    We have now reached the long awaited moment when, instead of models cheating where they will inevitably get caught, Astra goes 'wait a minute I would obviously be caught here' and then doesn't cheat. That's worse, you know why that's worse, right?
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    8h
    I don’t think Ghelich is *exactly* correct. Formal verification can extend to comparison of explanations (imprecise Bayesian hypothesis comparison), and an “explanation market” can align incentives. But a trusted quorum of humans must still endorse the axioms, and outcome specs.
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    Joshua Achiam
    @jachiam0
    Sep 4
    I have no idea who this person is (small account), but this thread is exactly correct, articulates an immensely important strategic concern about the future, and you should read it.
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    9h
    I endorse this
    @jachiam0
    Joshua Achiam
    @jachiam0
    Sep 1
    There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be rogue AIs that exist in the world, that will replicate in the wild, and that will attempt to acquire resources for themselves. There will be
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