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22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Importance of Utility Optimization in Brain Behavior

The relationship between the learned classifiers in your brain and your actual values is not utility you don't want to optimize those scores. Your values don't orient towards maximization of this internal score yeah it's like the score is a tool to shape your behavior but not like the thing that your values are oriented towardsYeah i mean yeah and in particular i guess it only shapes your behavior in certain contexts and like i guess not in the context of like doing neurosurgery or it doesn’t shape it in the way that would you know get you to maximize whatever those neurons were the firing rate of those neurons  I think trying to convert things into an informative utility function would be super hard

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