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Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

4 months ago
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As far as AI designers go, evolution has to be one of the worst. It randomly changes the genetic code, and then selects on the criterion of
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Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?

2 years ago
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The Kolmogorov complexity ("K") of a string ("S") specifies the size of the smallest Turing machine that can output that string. If a Turing
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Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun"

2 years ago
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I recently encountered something that is, in my opinion, one of the most absurd failure modes of the human brain. I first encountered this a
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