> Happiness is a prerequisite to the jhanas. > > -- Rob Burbea The jhanas are a series of eight, discrete states of experience that are described as extremely happy, pleasurable, and calm. They are accessible through specific meditation practices and are non-addictive. You may have heard of them from...
Assuming that alignment by default happens with nontrivial probability, one way to produce human-aligned AGIs would be to simultaneously create sufficiently many (different) AGI. This leads to a multipolar scenario where there are a few AGI aligned with humans, and many unaligned AGI. (By unaligned I mean unaligned with humans,...
Suppose that next year, AI Safety is solved, the solution is approved by Eliezer Yudkowsky, etc. How do we actually get people to follow this solution? It seems to me a lot of people or companies will ignore any AI Safety solutions for the same reasons they are currently ignoring...