Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many via cypherpunks]

> > [[[ummmmmm so something tha is missing from what I’m exposed to is
> > figuring out those reusable patterns so as to let discovery programs
> > succeed
> > like, you can run a genetic algorithm for years on an instruction set
> > and it will never discover its own code
> > but if you compress its design into a bunch of reusable patterns with
> > a small total count and a small total depth, you can (somewhat easily,
> > see perplexity link) set it up so that it _does_ discover its own code
> > quite quickly, and the solution is generalizable to larger (and
> > larger) scopes — it’s basically how we teach children and train
> > animals, we break tasks into parts the recipient can handle, it’s
> > human to do, but not instinctive to do with code
> [this is possibly how our genes and brain evolved too. When you can
> mutate your own meta patterns you can discover patterns like the above
> that themselves discover the above. but you have to mutate your own
> code etc
> > [[[[[i actually went to an online conference around architecture
> > discovery and was surprised that the leading academics were still not
> > doing this. instead huge cash rewards were being given to tiny
> > advances. it really read to me like the tech was suppressed. and it’s
[to clarify here the same person had been taking the reward every year
with a minor advancement.]
> > notable that this was _after_ covid and chatgpt dropped, so it could
> > have been a real overt normal suppression, for some reason classic AI
> > has not been discussed much any more and that’s quite obvious, it
> > could be because of alignment fears, unsure [[[in pre-covid I think we
> > were amplifying alignment fears, although hard to order the memories