This is a crosspost of my comment on the post Brave Little Humans. The open thread seems better for visibility and general discussion related to the metacrisis.
AI doom seems to fit the category “races to the bottom with unintended consequences” (and it isn’t the only existential risk in that category). As such, its desperate urgency is downstream from the metacrisis (or the meaning crisis as John Vervaeke called it). Resolving or mitigating the metacrisis would give much-needed breathing room for studying AI alignment and exacerbating the metacrisis would seem to increase AI risk further.
I personally happened to fall into studying the metacrisis rather than AI, and it is my estimate that the metacrisis is more solvable and has aspects to it that seem relevant to understanding cognitive agency and intelligence in general. The linkage is such that I believe both problems merit attention and may benefit from cross pollination.
The post seems to have disappeared, taking my link with it. Its main thrust was along the lines of arguing against giving up when faced with impossible situations. It mentioned AI doom as an example of such which then prompted my response.
This is a crosspost of my comment on the post Brave Little Humans. The open thread seems better for visibility and general discussion related to the metacrisis.
AI doom seems to fit the category “races to the bottom with unintended consequences” (and it isn’t the only existential risk in that category). As such, its desperate urgency is downstream from the metacrisis (or the meaning crisis as John Vervaeke called it). Resolving or mitigating the metacrisis would give much-needed breathing room for studying AI alignment and exacerbating the metacrisis would seem to increase AI risk further.
I personally happened to fall into studying the metacrisis rather than AI, and it is my estimate that the metacrisis is more solvable and has aspects to it that seem relevant to understanding cognitive agency and intelligence in general. The linkage is such that I believe both problems merit attention and may benefit from cross pollination.
Link?
(I assume that has more info about “the metacrisis”.)
The post seems to have disappeared, taking my link with it. Its main thrust was along the lines of arguing against giving up when faced with impossible situations. It mentioned AI doom as an example of such which then prompted my response.
Was it a link to an LW post?
Yeah, it was.