Acknowledgements

The vision here was midwifed originally in the wild and gentle radiance that is Abram's company (though essentially none of the content is explicitly his).

The PIBBSS-spirit has been infused in this work from before it began (may it infuse us all), as have meetings with the Agent Foundations team at MIRI over the past ~2 years.

More recently, everyone who has been loving the High Actuation project into form (very often spontaneously and without being encumbered by self-consciousness of this fact):[1] individuals include Steve Petersen, Mateusz Baginski, Aditya Prasad, Harmony, TJ, Chris Lakin; the AISC 2024 team, Murray Buchanan, Matt Farr, Arpan Agrawal, Adam, Ryan, Quinn; various people from Topos, ALIFE, MAPLE, EA Bangalore. Published while at CEEALAR.

Disclaimers

Very occasionally there are small remarks/questions from a remarkable human named Steve, since this and the next two posts are an edited transcript of me [...]

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Outline:

(00:05) Acknowledgements

(01:01) Disclaimers

(01:40) Taking Intelligence Seriously

(03:04) Failing to Take Intelligence Seriously

(05:02) Opportunities from Moderate Intelligence at Scale

(09:14) Live Interfaces

(12:57) Live Theory (preface)

(14:33) Navigation

(17:02) Live Theory (teaser)

(17:06) Possibility

The original text contained 14 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
June 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QvnzEHvodmwfBXu94/live-theory-part-0-taking-intelligence-seriously

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Live Theory Part 0: Taking Intelligence Seriously” by Sahil

LessWrong (30+ Karma)

“Live Theory Part 0: Taking Intelligence Seriously” by Sahil