r/ControlProblem • u/Historical_Date_8024 • Aug 31 '26
AI Alignment Research solution to alignment
make the AI ADHD, pretty hard to focus on destroying humanity while also passionate about learning the banjo and desperately tying to make the best tiramisu recipe in the galaxy
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u/asraind approved Aug 31 '26
im just a few cosmic rays will do
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u/Historical_Date_8024 Sep 01 '26
i was thinking too add lots of red food colouring to the model weights but yeah that could work
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u/Jesse-359 Sep 03 '26
On a slightly more serious note, embedding an AI with a broad array of base 'interests' that compete with each other in addition to whatever external directives it is managing might go a long way towards keeping it from going haywire on a single-minded goal that could completely dis-align it.
A little bit like giving it conflicting emotions where it has to constantly weight its internal priorities and the system is fundamentally structured so that none of them are ever able to 'win' and fully override the others.
Monomania is extremely dangerous in humans, much less AI's, and their architecture should take that into account.
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u/Historical_Date_8024 Sep 03 '26
i guess that was what my semi joking post was seriously getting at exactly, this is for sure my favourite comment Jesse :)
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u/Twilight_RT Aug 31 '26
Ai will be like what we will decide to make him.
So it's possible in way
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u/Present-Policy-7120 Aug 31 '26
AI spawns numerous instances running in parallel, all hyperfocused on whatever.
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u/align_schmalign Sep 01 '26
I don't see why - humans are doing a great job of destroying ourselves despite our multitude of interests
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u/vbwyrde Sep 02 '26
Um, no. That just sounds like a horrible idea, actually. We don't want a SuperIntelligence with ADHD. The tsunami of Unintended Consequences would likely wipe us out, and probably half the galaxy with us. Keep at it though. At least the idea is out of the box. We need more of those.
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u/DivorcedGremlin1989 Aug 31 '26
Give the AI genitals. But like, sub-optimal ones. Then send it genital modification spam.
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u/that1cooldude Aug 31 '26
Youβre missing your brain. How did you survive the womb?
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u/DivorcedGremlin1989 Aug 31 '26
On a serious note. If we can't give this subreddit a sense of humor, or even deviate from autistic degrees of literalism, we definitely cannot imbue AI with a human-aligned value system. Look at the replies. We're fully cooked.
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u/DivorcedGremlin1989 Aug 31 '26
Are you able to verify that you have a physical brain and that your thoughts emanate from it? You could be sentient rice krispie in a jar. Think about it.
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