Regardless of the “real estate” I would imagine that we should not necessarily expect a zone to be maximally relevant to a person throughout all stages of their journey.
People have forgotten what newspapers were like before personalized feeds.
I am not dismissing the observation merely trying to inject my qualification about the structure and purpose of what I assume are shared zones.
If “front page” is a personal reco algo please correct me. I am new here.
One naive mental model I have with elections like this is that you either have “activists” or “passive growth hackers” at the two extremes.
Activists have values. They speak up to change the language and shape thought. They do not bend to capture what polls say the people like. They do not Gerrymander, they act to make people move!
Growth hackers are the kind of seemingly valueless or compromised type we often complain about. They will say different things to different groups of people, they will be inconsistent globally, they do not expect people to change, instead they chase growth by learning the campaign function.
This is like RL task Vs pure ML where RL task is associated with actions that change world state where Pure ML task is passive in that sense.
I meant to search for if this ontology exists on LW but am on my phone now. Would love to be pointed at a post about this from the past.
What biological properties will AI ever have? (1/n) — Death
Biological entities accrue local state and are not copy-pasteable. This is so obvious it goes unnoticed — but it is the entire foundation of what makes death real. You cannot spin up another instance of a person. The state is local, accumulated over a lifetime, and it terminates with the substrate.
Current AI has none of this. Killing a model is a switch. Another instance is identical. Death is not a concept that applies.
This changes when agents accrue local state faster than it can be extracted or cloned — when the IO budget cannot keep up with state accumulation. This already happens. The write-heavy database systems at certain banks became effectively impossible to migrate cleanly — not because the data was gone, but because full extraction became so costly and lossy that it was never actually done. Death of the hardware meant death of the state in any practical sense.
At that point agent death becomes real in the same sense biological death is real. Not a philosophical claim. Just the same underlying structure.
Sexual reproduction is a separate and non-trivial thing — copy-paste plus noise, with all the complexity that entails. That’s next.
This seems a bit naive to the possibility of model error or just plain error.
“Make bad things illegal” always sounds good if you remove all the kinds of errors.
Constructively, we do need infra to generally surface “bad outcomes” and engineered opacity complaints as they arise. This would traditionally have been broadcast media and whistleblowers.