Humans are trained on how to live on Earth by hours of training on Earth. We can conceive of the possibility of Earth being controlled by an external force (God or the Simulation Hypothesis). Some people spend time thinking about how to act so that the external power continues to allow the Earth to exist.
Maybe most of us are just mimicking how an agent would behave in a given situation.
The universe appears to be well constructed to provide minimal clues as to the nature of its creator. Minecraft less so.
“Humans are trained on how to live on Earth by hours of training on Earth. (...) Maybe most of us are just mimicking how an agent would behave in a given situation.”
I agree that that’s a plausible enough explanation for lots of human behaviour, but I wonder how far you would get in trying to describe historical paradigm shifts using only a ‘mimic hypothesis of agenthood’.
Why would a perfect mimic that was raised on training data of human behaviour do anything paperclip-maximizer-ish? It doesn’t want to mimic being a human, just like Dall-E doesn’t want to generate images, so it doesn’t have a utility function for not wanting to be prevented from mimicking being a human, either.
Humans are trained on how to live on Earth by hours of training on Earth. We can conceive of the possibility of Earth being controlled by an external force (God or the Simulation Hypothesis). Some people spend time thinking about how to act so that the external power continues to allow the Earth to exist.
Maybe most of us are just mimicking how an agent would behave in a given situation.
The universe appears to be well constructed to provide minimal clues as to the nature of its creator. Minecraft less so.
I agree that that’s a plausible enough explanation for lots of human behaviour, but I wonder how far you would get in trying to describe historical paradigm shifts using only a ‘mimic hypothesis of agenthood’.
Why would a perfect mimic that was raised on training data of human behaviour do anything paperclip-maximizer-ish? It doesn’t want to mimic being a human, just like Dall-E doesn’t want to generate images, so it doesn’t have a utility function for not wanting to be prevented from mimicking being a human, either.