#tbc active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction —How might we align the intent and behaviour of artificially-intelligent-systems with human-values?   background #tbc Links: AI alignment - Wikipedia Add quotes when readwise starts working again   summary #tentative In principle, alignment is a simple exercise, child’s play even—join the dots. (Albeit mathematically and causally, across distinct-yet-related domains of concern) image of related domains of concerns #tbc...

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction why reverse engineer anything? —to better understand it, so that we might improve the circumstances of our survival Reverse engineering refers to a process of iterative, scoped, deductive reasoning: to isolate and model the causal profile of universal phenomena. causal profile: all universal phenomena, whether tangible or intangible, are manifest by the circumstantially evaluated behavioural characteristics of unique structural composition...

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction a quick sketch of the space Elements: arising, framing, assessment, simulation, continuation. arising, framing, and assessment, are introduced in ‘matters for attention’ ( https://mastodon.online/@causalmechanics/110040131729114979 ) Consider an arriving thought as the phenomenological experience of the receive end of an asynchronous synchronisation queue; whereby, while some unconscious operations of mind can run asynchronously over knowledge, others require fragments of knowledge to be marshalled for exclusive access, and synchronous evaluation, with embodied state ^[ An arriving thought is effectively a minimal set-of-concerns, framed by: presently loaded contexts (the rules and constituents of); sensory feeds (if appropriate); and simultaneously presentable embodied state ]....

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction what is reverse engineering? Reverse engineering refers to a process of iterative deductive reasoning, to model the structural, compositional and causal profiles of universal phenomena, including arbitrarily all respective constituents. The causal profile of any tangible or intangible universal phenomena is a function of its structure. The causal profile of non-trivial universal phenomena will be referred to as causal architecture....

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction Sam Harris knows: —Why all indirect approaches to artificial general intelligence, like LLMs, will fail to achieve human like general intelligence, and additionally, cannot achieve human like consciousness. Because: ‘consciousness is distinct from its contents’—Sam. $$\ldots$$ The field of AI can’t define general intelligence sufficiently for engineers to directly design and build generally intelligent systems. Instead, the field focuses on alt indirect approaches, like LLMs, in the hope that a distinct system is redundant, or simply emerges....

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction see: meditation practice   That what happens during meditation practice is all normal stuff, and the simplest explanation, will probably be framed and described by biological embodied sensory function, and the circumstances under which those functions evolved, or now apply, at the granularity of volitional and operational cognitive mechanics #tbc aeim@2023-3-15.32380

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction see: meditation practice Meditation is an ambiguous term Meditation and meditation practice, will be discussed in detail in the exercise: foundations $$\ldots$$ Meditation practice will initially refer to an idealised representation of meditation practice, specifically vipassana meditation practice ^[ Initially ]. Modern examples of vipassana meditation practice can be found at: Waking Up with Sam Harris FitMind – Science-Based Mental Fitness however – Sam’s Waking up App provides both a concise introduction to the practice, and crucially, Sam introduces and methodically demonstrates an essential conceptual and perceptive distinction:...

a paradigmatic mashup—thomas kuhn vs map territory vs set theory active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction a reinterpretation of thomas kuhn’s ‘on the structure of scientific revolutions’, through the lens of set-theory(-ish) mathematics note: consider all set-theory as pseudo-set-theory; a means for a novice mathematician to express ideas in less time and fewer words, than a similarly novice writer might, in prose. all terms are tentative....

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction reckon, reason, reconcile refers to alignment between distinct-yet-related abstract dimensions of concern   notes Reckoning: extrinsic, contextual alignment Reasoning: intrinsic, general case alignment Reconciliation: intrinsic, special case alignment importantly, while reconciliation is the more precise abstract dimension, when unconstrained by less precise dimensions, reconciliation may result in being lead astray by details, which while seemingly apparent up close, are: accounted for by simpler cause; or irreconcilable with greater context...