My knowledge of alignment is somewhat limited, so keep in mind some of my questions may be a bit dumb simply because there are holes in my understanding.
It seems hard to scan a trained neural network and locate the AI’s learned “tree” abstraction. For very similar reasons, it seems intractable for the genome to scan a human brain and back out the “death” abstraction, which probably will not form at a predictable neural address. Therefore, we infer that the genome can’t directly make us afraid of death by e.g. specifying circuitry which d
This seems wrong to me. Twin studies, GCTA estimates, and actual genetic predictors all predict that a portion of the variance in human biases is "hardcoded" in the genome.
I'd also imagine that mathematical skill is heritable. [Finds an article on Google Scholar] The abstract of https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015115 seems to agree. Yet due to information inaccesibility and lack of selection pressure ancestrally, I infer math ability probably isn't hardcoded.
There are a range of possible explanations which reconcile these two observations, like "better gen... (read more)
Man, what a post!
My knowledge of alignment is somewhat limited, so keep in mind some of my questions may be a bit dumb simply because there are holes in my understanding.
... (read more)I'd also imagine that mathematical skill is heritable. [Finds an article on Google Scholar] The abstract of https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015115 seems to agree. Yet due to information inaccesibility and lack of selection pressure ancestrally, I infer math ability probably isn't hardcoded.
There are a range of possible explanations which reconcile these two observations, like "better gen... (read more)