Philosophical articles are here to explain some of the abstract concepts I’m basing my approaches on, especially when dealing with artificial intelligence or social effects. I put them here to be able to just send a link to someone when the need arises instead of explaining the whole system of thought behind it.
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes The homework is ours. But what does the homework require? The previous article argued that AI alignment is social alignment — that if we want a mirror worth looking into, we must…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Evolution never bets on one horse. When the environment shifts, a population survives not because every member is optimally adapted, but because its members are different enough that some will make it…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes When I think about what AI does for me, I keep returning to a German word: Handlungsimpulsverstärker — an action-impulse amplifier. Here’s the underlying idea. We like to believe that our actions…