I came here to say “look at octopods!” but you already have. Yay team! :-)
One of the alignment strategies I have been researching in parallel with many others involves finding examples of human-and-animal benevolence and tracing convergent evolution therein, and proposing that “the shared abstracts here (across these genomes, these brains, these creatures all convergently doing these things)” is probably algorithmically simple, with algorithm-to-reality shims that might also be important, and please study it and lean in the direction of doing “more of that”.
There is an octopod cognate of “ocytocin” (the “maternal love and protection hormone”), but from what I can tell they did NOT re-use it in the ways that we did. But also they mostly lay eggs while abandoning the individual babies to their own survival, rather than raising children carefully.
By contrast, birds and mammals share a relatively similar kind of “high parental investment”!
I searched a bit more and it seems they don’t have personal relationships with other members of the same species the way mammals and birds can.
Personal relationships seem to something that needs intelligence and that birds and mammals evolved separately.
I came here to say “look at octopods!” but you already have. Yay team! :-)
One of the alignment strategies I have been researching in parallel with many others involves finding examples of human-and-animal benevolence and tracing convergent evolution therein, and proposing that “the shared abstracts here (across these genomes, these brains, these creatures all convergently doing these things)” is probably algorithmically simple, with algorithm-to-reality shims that might also be important, and please study it and lean in the direction of doing “more of that”.
There is an octopod cognate of “ocytocin” (the “maternal love and protection hormone”), but from what I can tell they did NOT re-use it in the ways that we did. But also they mostly lay eggs while abandoning the individual babies to their own survival, rather than raising children carefully.
By contrast, birds and mammals share a relatively similar kind of “high parental investment”!