Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
As we go down the list, the proposals get fancier and add more bells and whistles, trying to make the AI a better expert. Sadly, none of them at all address what I expect to be the actual main bottleneck: The Client (i.e. the human user or users) has no understanding of what they need, what questions to ask, what’s possible or even logically coherent, etc.
Why Not Just Outsource Alignment Research to an AI?
johnswentworth
In general it is better to have many functions than to pass some code into a function to select the behavior.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
She liked to think that, despite his overweening arrogance—a trait she and Kern surely shared with the fictional doctor—even Victor Frankenstein might have softened towards his creation if he had been the last human left in a world where only monsters could survive. And there was definitely something of the monstrous in the brain structures she uncovered. But sometimes a little monstrosity is what you need.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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