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Open-ended like OpenAI.

Then instead of superheroes think about countries or groups. How do you align Iran? How do you align the NRA? How’s culture, storytelling, arguing, etc. working for us so far? The …

When we get intelligent machines they will become beings. Contrary to SV corporate-speak, you don’t align beings. You don’t align your neighbors, you don’t align people from other …

But optimization is decidedly not intelligence. We’ve known this for decades and have clear proofs this is the case. This is just a collective dance of burying our heads in the san…

This is not something programmers and other wild HN dwellers are accustomed to hearing, but there is a very strong case to suggest that intelligence, the universal kind, is not pos…

At scale, Evolutionary Strategies (ES) are a very good approximation of the gradient as well. Don’t recommend to jump just yet to conclusions and unifications.

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else”.