I share some similar frustrations, and unfortunately these are also prevalent in other parts of the human society. The commonality of most of these fakeness seem to be impure intentions—there are impure/non-intrinsic motivations other than producing the best science/making true progress. Some of these motivations unfortunately could be based on survival/monetary pressure, and resolving that for true research or progress seems to be critical. We need to encourage a culture of pure motivations, and also equip ourselves with more ability/tools to distinguish extrinsic motivations.
wonder
Karma: 14
Would the take over for small countries also about humans using just an advanced AI for taking over? (or would the human using advanced AI for take over happen faster?)
Maybe I missed this in the article itself—are there plans to make sure the superbabies are aligned and will not abuse/overpower the non-engineered peers?
I was thinking of this the other day as well; I think this is particularly a problem when we are evaluating misalignment based on these semantic wording. This may suggest the increasing need to pursue alternative ways to evaluate misalignment, rather than purely prompt based evaluation benchmarks
Based on my observations, I would also think some current publication chasing culture could get people push out papers more quickly (in some particular domains like CS), even though some papers may be partially completed
Will the event/sessions be recorded by any chance? (may not be able to attend, but would love to learn); additionally, would the topics be focused exclusively on relations to X risks?
Note: this is a completely sidebar (and apologize in advance).
Out of curiosity, in hypothetical scenarios:
Would replace randomly-sampled people with smarter, kinder, happier people? (To clarify I hope the answer is no)
Would you say you would (or humans) prefer your family members over other randomly-sampled people, in a resource scarce situation and when you have the power to choose who to survive?
Context: I have no issue with this statement. I am asking because I have also been thinking about this human nature, and trying to find the pros and cons of it.