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Worried about AGI running amok in the near future? John Wentworth thinks we can align AI. In 10-15 years. With greater than 50/50 probability. And he has a plan!
We discuss The Plan, its merits, and how it has progressed over the past year.
Primary Sources:
The Plan
The Plan – 2022 Update
Also discussed:
The Basic Foundations for Agent Models sequence
The Telephone Theorem
The “Minimal Latents” Approach to Natural Abstractions
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Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:
You can definitely “hear” a complex piece of music with a bunch of different instruments just from looking at sheet music. I don’t know if it can be done in real time — I would be very impressed but not shocked if e.g. an orchestra conductor did that — but given unlimited time to read and mentally process the sheet music and the attention span to actually do it, it is not even very difficult.
That’s crazy! ty