Yes, I’ve read the whole sequence a year ago. I might be missing something and probably should revisit it, just to be sure and because it’s a good read anyway, but i think that my idea is somewhat different. I think that instead of trying to directly understand wet bio-NN, it might be a better option to replicate something similar in an artificial-NN. It is much easier to run experiments since you can save the whole state at any moment and intoduce it to the different scenarios, so it much easier to control for some effect. Much easier to see activations, change weights, etc. The catch is that we have to first find it blindly with gradient descent, probably by simulating something similar to the evolutionary environment that produced “caring drives” in us. And maternal instinct in particular sounds like the most interesting and promising candidate for me.
Can you provide links to your posts on that? I will try to read more about it in the next few days.
You should look at the work of Steve Byrnes, particularly his Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety sequence. Figuring out the brain mechanisms of prosocial behavior (including what you’re terming the caring drive) is his primary research goal. I’ve also written about this approach in an article, Anthropomorphic reasoning about neuromorphic AGI safety, and in some of my posts here.
Yes, I’ve read the whole sequence a year ago. I might be missing something and probably should revisit it, just to be sure and because it’s a good read anyway, but i think that my idea is somewhat different.
I think that instead of trying to directly understand wet bio-NN, it might be a better option to replicate something similar in an artificial-NN. It is much easier to run experiments since you can save the whole state at any moment and intoduce it to the different scenarios, so it much easier to control for some effect. Much easier to see activations, change weights, etc. The catch is that we have to first find it blindly with gradient descent, probably by simulating something similar to the evolutionary environment that produced “caring drives” in us. And maternal instinct in particular sounds like the most interesting and promising candidate for me.
Can you provide links to your posts on that? I will try to read more about it in the next few days.