I’ve been thinking a lot about how mesa-optimizer induction is basically happening right now with AI-induced psychosis – it’s like these emergent goals in chatbots are already causing psychotic breaks in users, creating these optimization daemons in human minds.
I missed the self-referential part about Tim, but not the part about the delirious AI alignment ideas related to AI psychosis. Especially given that this phrase from Tim isn’t actually delirious, unlike, say, wild theories related to prime numbers.