Reading this, I felt a strange sense of calm coming over me: we finally have a really good introductory article to the issue, and SingInst finally has people who can write such articles.
I feel like humanity’s future is in good hands, and that SI now has a realistic chance of attracting enough mainstream academic interest to make a difference.
Also, this paragraph:
Neuroeconomists and other cognitive neuroscientists can continue to uncover how human values are encoded and modified in the brain. Philosophers and mathematicians can develop more sophisticated value extrapolation algorithms, building on the literature concerning reflective equilibrium and “ideal preference” or “full information” theories of value. Economists, neuroscientists, and AI researchers can extend current results in choice modelling (Hess and Daly 2010) and preference elicitation (Domshlak et al. 2011) to extract preferences from human behavior and brain activity. Decision theorists can work to develop a decision theory that is capable of reasoning about decisions and values subsequent to self-modification: a “reflective” decision theory.
made me feel like SI might now have a clue of how to usefully put extra money into use if they got it, something that I was doubtful about before.
Reading this, I felt a strange sense of calm coming over me: we finally have a really good introductory article to the issue, and SingInst finally has people who can write such articles.
I feel like humanity’s future is in good hands, and that SI now has a realistic chance of attracting enough mainstream academic interest to make a difference.
Also, this paragraph:
made me feel like SI might now have a clue of how to usefully put extra money into use if they got it, something that I was doubtful about before.