This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]:...
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Episode 144 Happy New Year! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the fourth time,...
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Episode 143 I spoke with Iason Gabriel about: Value alignment Technology and worldmaking How AI...
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Illustration by Alina Pringle (https://alinapringle.format.com) “In projecting language back...
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Episode 142 Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite episodes of the year — for the third time,...
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Episode 141 I spoke with Professor Philip Goff about: What a “post-Galilean” science of...
Read MoreHi everyone! If you’re a new subscriber or listener, welcome. If you’re not new, you’ve probably noticed that things have slowed down from us a bit recently. , and I sat down to recap some of The Gradient’s history, where we are...
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I’m very excited to share this piece by Henry Kvinge about the overlap between machine learning...
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Episode 140 I spoke with Professor Jacob Andreas about: Language and the world World models How...
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Episode 139 I spoke with Evan Ratliff about: , Evan’s new podcast, where he creates an AI voice...
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Episode 138 I spoke with Meredith Morris about: The intersection of AI and HCI and why we need...
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Welcome to the 83rd update from the Gradient! If you’re new and like what you see, subscribe and...
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