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The Millennium Problems for Biology

164 points · 120 comments · artninja1988

  1. doctoboggan · · focus · HN ↗
    Someone should make the millennium problems for AI alignment so the frontier labs will actually try to solve that problem.
    1. daveguy · · focus · HN ↗
      You'd think that believing they are going to destroy humanity would motivate them.
      1. alansaber · · focus · HN ↗
        They're for-profit corporations above all.
        1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
          Corporations are really the embodiment of Moloch.
        2. mmooss · · focus · HN ↗
          They are human institutions above all. Saying 'we're a corporation' doesn't at all absolve them from human traits, consequences, and responsibilities.
      2. an0malous · · focus · HN ↗
        If you ignore what people say and instead observe what they do, the world makes a lot more sense.
      3. throwup238 · · focus · HN ↗
        Some ~~people~~ corporations just want to see the world burn.
    2. hodgehog11 · · focus · HN ↗
      A group already (sort-of) has for the broader theory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2604.21691" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2604.21691

      It&#x27;s a good list, but &quot;alignment&quot; is much more targetted. I attended a workshop with researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic also present, where the objective was to hash out what the problems in alignment even are. This, it turned out, was extraordinarily difficult.

      The problems with alignment are to do with how we define and search for this vague notion when it is mathematically ill-posed at present.

    3. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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    4. aleph_minus_one · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; Someone should make the millennium problems for AI alignment so the frontier labs will actually try to solve that problem.

      Rather: Someone should make the millennium problems for human alignment so the top researchers will actually try to solve that problem. :-)

      1. a83ndoija9isjd · · focus · HN ↗
        They are already human-aligned. That is the entire issue.
        1. busssard · · focus · HN ↗
          because run by humans? i would not consider them aligned with human goals per se..
    5. vjvjvjvjghv · · focus · HN ↗
      The only thing the frontier labs are interested in is their trillion dollar IPOs.
    6. aaron695 · · focus · HN ↗

      [dead]

    7. mettamage · · focus · HN ↗
      For 1 million dollars?

      I hope you are right.

    8. wise_blood · · focus · HN ↗
      I was gonna write &quot;Implement the three laws of robotics&quot;, but then I remembered that the point of the short stories is that there are a number of loopholes...
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