Exploring the Nature of Meaning and Human Aspiration

Sonia is a graduate student applying ML to neuroscience at MILA. She was previously applying deep learning to neural data at Janelia, an NLP research engineer at a startup and graduated in computational neuroscience at Princeton University. 

Anonymous feedback: https://app.suggestionox.com/r/xOmqTW 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi 

Sonia's December update: https://t.co/z0GRqDTnWm

Sonia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/soniajoseph_ 

Orthogonality Thesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo

Paperclip game: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Ngo & Yudkowsky on feedback loops: https://bit.ly/3ml0zFL 

Outline 

00:00 Intro

01:06 NFTs

03:38 Web 3

21:12 Digital Copy

29:09 ML x Neuroscience

43:44 Limits of the Orthogonality Thesis

01:01:25 Goal of perpetuating Information

01:08:14 Compressing information

01:10:52 Feedback loops are not safe

01:17:43 Another AI Safety aesthetic

01:23:46 Meaning of life