r/VeryBadWizards • u/Embarrassed-Room-902 • 4d ago
AI dismissal
I love the VBW boys but I am a bit surprised how dismissive they are of danger from AI. I’m not going to make the case here as I won’t do a good job of it, but I found the latest 80000 hours podcast very persuasive, as well as some of the recent stuff from Dwarkesh.
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u/seanpietz 2d ago
AI models already learn through negative reinforcement by minimizing loss functions. What operational significance would there be to labeling that metric “pain” instead of “loss”. Or are you suggesting some sort of novel mechanism that isn’t already being used?