Is there anything in the world that we know of that does alignment for something else? Can we say that humans are doing “coherent extrapolated volition” for evolution? Keeping in mind that under this view, evolution itself would evolve and change into something more complex and may be better.
The only example I can think of is with parents and their children. Evolutionarily, parents are optimized to maximize the odds that their children will survive to reproduce, up to and including self-sacrifice to that end. However, parents do not possess ideal information about the current state of their child, so they must undergo a process resembling value alignment to learn what their children need.
Is there anything in the world that we know of that does alignment for something else? Can we say that humans are doing “coherent extrapolated volition” for evolution? Keeping in mind that under this view, evolution itself would evolve and change into something more complex and may be better.
Humans try to make their pets happy, usually...
The only example I can think of is with parents and their children. Evolutionarily, parents are optimized to maximize the odds that their children will survive to reproduce, up to and including self-sacrifice to that end. However, parents do not possess ideal information about the current state of their child, so they must undergo a process resembling value alignment to learn what their children need.