Psychology may [… be …] ultimately very important, perhaps critically important
oh good, my other project is psychology, so I really hope it circles back.
I originally got into the AI safety stuff because I was trying to understand psychological boundaries properly and realized that no one did. Then I realized that many people were maybe doing the same thing when thinking about interactions between AIs and humans.
The concept of “separation of tasks” from Adlerian Psychology. This is where many of my intuitions originally came from. This isn’t technical though.
Psychology may not be “technical enough” because an adequate mathematical science or process theory is not developed for it, yet, but it’s ultimately very important, perhaps critically important: see the last paragraph of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AKBkDNeFLZxaMqjQG/gaia-network-a-practical-incremental-pathway-to-open-agency. Davidad apparently thinks that it can be captured with an Infra-Bayesian model of a person/human.
Also on psychology: what is the boundary of personality, where just a “role” (spouse, worker, etc) turns into multiple-personality disorder?
oh good, my other project is psychology, so I really hope it circles back.
I originally got into the AI safety stuff because I was trying to understand psychological boundaries properly and realized that no one did. Then I realized that many people were maybe doing the same thing when thinking about interactions between AIs and humans.