I agree with you about introspection being powerful and underused. I have believed that and relied heavily on it through my 25-year career in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and I believe introspecting seriously and carefully gave me an edge.
I do not think introspection gives you insight on the original sources of your motivations. I think there are powerful instincts in play that LLMs do not share.
I also agree with you that you might well be able to bootstrap current LLMs to greater capabilities. It’s moving slower than I thought it would, but it is happening. I’m curious if you’ve pursued this or given up on it. I do think that advancing scaffolded LLM agents to greater capabilities is probably good for our odds. I have some elaborate reasoning on that, and I’m not sure but at this point I think it’s likely enough that I’m willing to help with LLM agent projects.
I agree with you about introspection being powerful and underused. I have believed that and relied heavily on it through my 25-year career in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and I believe introspecting seriously and carefully gave me an edge.
I do not think introspection gives you insight on the original sources of your motivations. I think there are powerful instincts in play that LLMs do not share.
I also agree with you that you might well be able to bootstrap current LLMs to greater capabilities. It’s moving slower than I thought it would, but it is happening. I’m curious if you’ve pursued this or given up on it. I do think that advancing scaffolded LLM agents to greater capabilities is probably good for our odds. I have some elaborate reasoning on that, and I’m not sure but at this point I think it’s likely enough that I’m willing to help with LLM agent projects.