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A Brief History "Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will… it can never oppose passion in the direction of the will… The reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" These words were written by David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature in 1773.[1] We have had philosophical systems that put the wills or the motive forces in their rightful place in the hierarchy of action choices for a long time. The idea being that there's a process outside rationality making selections based on the reality the personality inhabits that are evolutionarily benefiting the human animal. I intend to argue that emotions are not a separate phenomenon from rational thought, but are instead a core functional component for assembling the rational universe. I Feel Therefor I Am Everything we humans care about. Everything we notice. Everything in the rational human universe exists because at some point in time a human had a feeling about it enough to care about it and turn it into part of their shared existence with other human beings. The Emotional Machine I had set myself the goal of building an artificial general intelligence based in part on Marvin Minsky's emotion machine. I tried working out what it would take to model what I knew about emotions as a biologist and trying out functional abstractions for them as a computer scientist. I had both personal and educational exposure to psychological concepts so I began with the discrete emotions and tried imagining what each might look like as a function. Here is an entire article on the various models people have tried before. While looking into the possibility, I ran across the continuous emotional model (figure 1 [2]) and after staring at that for a while, realized I was looking at a four dimensional space. (figure 2) figure 1 : The discrete emotions mapped as dyads of every emotion with the exception of its polar opposite.figure 2 :

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The Rope Management Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Modulating Reward Perception and Mitigating Hedonic Adaptation

Abstract The Rope Management Theory (RMT) presents an innovative theoretical framework that elucidates the correlation between effortful engagement (the "rope") and the perceived value of associated rewards (the "breakfast"). The RMT is underpinned by principles from behavioral economics, motivation theory, and hedonic psychology, offering practical strategies to augment life satisfaction...

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Oren's Field Guide of Bad AGI Outcomes

This field guide is my attempt to collect my observations and conceptual ideas regarding artificial general intelligence (AGI), it’s place in our current moment of AI history and designs for AGI that might just get us out of our current exposure to existential risk from technology. I am writing it...

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On Generality

What Is Generality? A general agent is one that will use its past observations in its attempts to reach its goals and failing that, will add chaos to its environment until something novel happens that can be added to its future tool set, it dies, or it resets its motivations...

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How to Train Your AGI Dragon

Originally mistitled Here Be AGI Dragons, this document has now been moved from the safety section to where it belongs in the "How To" section... This paper is the first in a series of posts I intend to write about an instructional manifesto for anyone wanting to build an Artificial...

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Eris Discordia

Eris Discordia

Eris Discordia

Feelings

On Generality

Oren's Field Guide of Bad AGI Outcomes

How to Train Your AGI Dragon

Eris Discordia

The Rope Management Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Modulating Reward Perception and Mitigating Hedonic Adaptation

Feelings

Oren's Field Guide of Bad AGI Outcomes

On Generality

How to Train Your AGI Dragon

The Rope Management Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Modulating Reward Perception and Mitigating Hedonic Adaptation

Feelings

Oren's Field Guide of Bad AGI Outcomes

On Generality

How to Train Your AGI Dragon

Feelings

On Generality

Oren's Field Guide of Bad AGI Outcomes

How to Train Your AGI Dragon