
22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope
AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast
The Role of Shards in Decision Making
Some shards specialize towards activating in the discriminative versus generative context or you could be like um there are different versions of the same underlying shard. The first population of shards is going to be more inclined towards quicker shallower lower level sensor aerally grounded decision influences and then the second one is higher level more introspective thinking about the reasons you're thinking stuff. It's very unlikely that you'll have a decision influence on your food preferences that is whose underlying computation is asking anything like do i want to be the sort of person who likes apples or that sort of thing.
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