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Autarkic Agency Will Likely Migrate Upwards

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Epistemic status: Interesting as a mechanism and trend, but obviously highly variable over short timescales and ultimately speculative. On a plane recently I ended up noodling back around to my original concepts of amortised vs direct optimization and also Rudolf’s sequence on wisdom as amortised optimisation. The question that I...

Epistemic status: Interesting as a mechanism and trend, but obviously highly variable over short timescales and ultimately speculative. On a plane recently I ended up noodling back around to my original concepts of amortised vs direct optimization and also Rudolf’s sequence on wisdom as amortised optimisation. The question that I was pondering was how the balance of amortised s direct amortisation is likely to shift in the future, especially a highly polytheistic AI future. In this case, what seems likely to me is that amortised optimisation is broadly likely to increasingly dominate (as…

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