Difference between revisions of "Simple core of consequentialist reasoning"
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i guess this is about the same sort of thing (but maybe not exactly the same): https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality | i guess this is about the same sort of thing (but maybe not exactly the same): https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality | ||
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| + | saying there is a simple core of agency/consequentialist reasoning/rationality is not the same thing as saying that AGI will be simple (rather than messy), i think. there could be modules of the AGI (like for image recognition, language) that can be very messy, but where the core agency module is still simple. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Hardware-driven vs software-driven progress]] | * [[Hardware-driven vs software-driven progress]] | ||
Revision as of 00:30, 19 February 2020
"the MIRI intuition that there is a small core of good consequentialist reasoning that is important for AI capabilities and that can be discovered through theoretical research." https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1220
and Nate's comment https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1228
i guess this is about the same sort of thing (but maybe not exactly the same): https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/suxvE2ddnYMPJN9HD/realism-about-rationality
saying there is a simple core of agency/consequentialist reasoning/rationality is not the same thing as saying that AGI will be simple (rather than messy), i think. there could be modules of the AGI (like for image recognition, language) that can be very messy, but where the core agency module is still simple.
