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22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Brain and the Human World Model

Steven Brins wrote a like 15 post sequence arguing for this sort of picture of the brain is doing within lifetime learning that's one thing in the form of self-supervised learning and reinforcement learning yeah okay also like you compare it to say the recent progress in deep learning and we seem to have like stumbled upon a pretty similar paradigm to what the brain seems to do. So that's suggestive it's like a convergent thing as an effective way of getting like performance out of a computational system Yeah okay cool so I think I understand this view a bit better I guess like I'm still I guess I have this question like why should I believe these assumptions about the brain?

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