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AGI: The tragic irony and the wrong priority (opens the original)
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A tragic irony drives world events, while hiding in plain sight. In ordinary language, the problem is this: our safety depends on teaching AI to choose the right goals, but we have chosen the wrong goal for AI. Our most advanced technology - AI - is only ‘safe’ to the extent that it can be grown/built in ways that are aligned with human interests and values. This so-called ‘alignment’ depends on carefully choosing the right objectives (broadly conceived) to guide goal-seeking behaviour in AIs. A
The Kaleidoscopic Method (opens the original)
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Editor’s Introduction: It is said that it’s easier to act ourselves into new ways of thinking than to think our way into new ways of acting. This premise inspired Perspectiva’s efforts to create the Antidebate and The Realisation Festival, both of which were helpfully informed in their early stages by our guest author Minna Salami when she worked with us a few years ago.1 The theory-to-practice effort is
Moloch in Therapy (opens the original)
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I wonder if “summer reading” might be a myth to make us feel guilty about not reading enough, and a marketing ploy above all. If it helps, I can admit to not having read any full books yet this summer, but I am steadily researching what Roger Penrose aptly calls artificial cleverness, which most people unwisely but understandably conflate with artificial intelligence. It is striking how much of this burgeoning field of updates, analysis and commentary is characterised by a sense of incipient tra
The Temporal Sublime (opens the original)
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Only by reckoning with time can we understand why the present feels simultaneously ancient, accelerated, haunted, precious, unstable, and morally urgent.The perennial questions of who we are, why we are here, and what we should do are still with us, but as creatures vulnerable to habit and convenience, we are as likely to look for answers on our phones as in the rivers or the stars. This is still a viable, liveable, wonderful planet, and life is a great blessing. Yet many of our challenges are a
Rain and the Rhinoceros (opens the original)
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There will be a new “It’s not woo if it’s true” instalment shortly. I need a little longer to get a feel for all the ways that Henri Corbin’s Latin coinage of mundus imaginalis (the imaginal realm) is indebted to broader currents of Islamic mysticism, not least Ibn Arabi, that I barely know anything about. This research is part of trying to make sense of the world-historical importance of rediscovering what is widely called the imaginal realm, which I genuinely feel we lost along the way, so muc
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