This is a linkpost for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJ8QEnGlF0

This is a linkpost for a talk I gave this past summer for the ALIFE conference. If you haven't heard of it before, ALIFE (short for "artificial life") is a subfield of biology which... well, here are some of the session titles from day 1 of the conference to give the gist:

Cellular Automata, Self-Reproduction and Complexity
Evolving Robot Bodies and Brains in Unity
Self-Organizing Systems with Machine Learning
Untangling Cognition: How Information Theory can Demystify Brains

... so you can see how this sort of crowd might be interested in AI alignment.

Rory Greig and Simon McGregor definitely saw how such a crowd might be interested in AI alignment, so they organized an alignment workshop at the conference.

I gave this talk as part of that workshop. The stated goal of the talk was to "nerd-snipe ALIFE researchers into working on alignment-relevant [...]

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First published:
December 17th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mRquvigHrxEkpp5qG/talk-ai-would-be-a-lot-less-alarming-if-we-understood-agents

Linkpost URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJ8QEnGlF0

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

[Linkpost] “Talk: ‘AI Would Be A Lot Less Alarming If We Understood Agents’” by johnswentworth

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