On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:...
> ..."you" control people using either positive or negative reinforcement. > Traditionally, "governments" controlled people using threats of > punishment, but there is a centuries long trend towards less cruelty and > higher legal costs. "AI" makes it easy to use reward instead, predicting > what you want, lowering the cost, and selling it to you. > Agents can be thought of as control systems and control systems have utility functions and you've mentioned 3 distinct agents: "you" "governments" "AI" I suppose you left off one other: "we" It is ok to conflate all of these so long as there are no distinct identities hence there is only one agent hence there is only one utility function. But I would submit that is insane. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te0af3a0c35a03987-M48cd3c5ce41cf89d9d16c082 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
