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179 – The Plan (to align AI), with John Wentworth

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Emergent Beauty in Math

I'm glad he chose something simple like squares to start because you know some of his math examples, the inferential existence is a little, little high for me and doesn't make good audio. It's important to refuse to see beauty that isn't there just because you want there to be beauty, don't try to impose it. Doing math is like chatting up and kissing a beautiful woman. You don't force things. And so it is kind of just like this underlying principle of it, right? I'm sure there's emergent, the property's emergent beauty in math too that I just am not equipped to pontificate or understand about. So, Yeah. I like it.

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