quetzal_rainbow comments on Agentic GPT simulations: a risk and an opportunity

[quetzal_rainbow]

The instrumental convergence thesis only applies to fitness maximizers, not adaptation executors, however intelligent.

Clearly no? If you execute adaptation “be rational” you get the same results, it’s how general intelligence emerged in humans.

[Yair Halberstadt]

Being rational is fitness maximisation. It’s impossible to be rational without respect to some goal.

Fitness maximisation in humans is built on top of an adaptation executor. Adaptation executor/​fitness maximisation is a spectrum, not a binary switch.