Roman Yampolskiy: observation

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…So that’s one of the possible outcomes, but what in general is the idea of the paper? So it’s looking at multiple agents. They’re human AI, like a hybrid system, whether it’s humans and AIs or is it looking at humans or just intelligent agents? In order to solve value alignment problem, I’m trying to formalize it a little better. Usually we’re talking about getting AIs to do what we want, which is not well-defined are we’re talking about creator of a system, owner of that AI, humanity as a whole, but we don’t agree on much. There is no universally accepted ethics, morals across cultures, religions. People have individually very different preferences politically and such. So even if we somehow managed all the other aspects of it, programming those fuzzy concepts in, getting AI to follow them closely, we don’t agree on what to program in. So my solution was, okay, we don’t have to compromise on room temperature. You have your universe, I have mine, whatever you want, and if you like me, you can invite me to visit your universe. We don’t have to be independent, but the point is you can be, and virtual reality is getting pretty good. It’s going to hit a point where you can’t tell the difference, and if you can’t tell if it’s real or not, what’s the difference? So basically give up on value alignment, create the multiverse theory. This is create an entire universe for you with your values.…

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