I have some interest in cluster B personality disorders, on the theory that something(s) in human brains makes people tend to be nice to their friends and family, and whatever that thing is, it would be nice to understand it better because maybe we can put something like it into future AIs, assuming those future AIs have a sufficiently similar high-level architecture to the human brain, which I think is plausible.
And whatever that thing is, it evidently isn’t working in the normal way in cluster B personality disorder people, so maybe better understanding the brain mechanisms behind cluster B personality disorders would get a “foot in the door” in understanding that thing.
Sigh. This comment won’t be very helpful. Here’s where I’m coming from. I have particular beliefs about how social instincts need to work (short version), beliefs which I think we mostly don’t share—so an “explanation” that would satisfy you would probably bounce off me and vice-versa. (I’m happy to work on reconciling if you think it’s a good use of your time.) If it helps, I continue to be pretty happy about the ASPD theory I suggested here, with the caveat that I now think that it’s only an explanation of a subset of ASPD cases. I’m pretty confused on borderline, and I’m at a total loss on narcissism. There’s obviously loads of literature on borderline & narcissism, and I can’t tell you concretely any new studies or analysis that I wish existed but don’t yet. But anyway, if you’re aware of gaps in the literature on cluster B stuff, I’m generally happy for them to be filled. And I think there’s a particular shortage of “grand theorizing” on what’s going on mechanistically in narcissism (or at least, I’ve been unable to find any in my brief search). (In general, I find that “grand theorizing” is almost always helpfully thought-provoking, even if it’s often wrong.)
Steven—well, I think the Cluster B personality disorders (including antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic disorders)are probably quite important to understand in AI alignment.
Antisocial personality disorder (which is closely related to the more classical notion of ‘psychopathy’) seems likely to characterize a lot of ‘bad actors’ who might (mis)use AI for trolling, crime, homicide, terrorism, etc. And, it provides a model for what we don’t want AGIs to behave like.
I have some interest in cluster B personality disorders, on the theory that something(s) in human brains makes people tend to be nice to their friends and family, and whatever that thing is, it would be nice to understand it better because maybe we can put something like it into future AIs, assuming those future AIs have a sufficiently similar high-level architecture to the human brain, which I think is plausible.
And whatever that thing is, it evidently isn’t working in the normal way in cluster B personality disorder people, so maybe better understanding the brain mechanisms behind cluster B personality disorders would get a “foot in the door” in understanding that thing.
Sigh. This comment won’t be very helpful. Here’s where I’m coming from. I have particular beliefs about how social instincts need to work (short version), beliefs which I think we mostly don’t share—so an “explanation” that would satisfy you would probably bounce off me and vice-versa. (I’m happy to work on reconciling if you think it’s a good use of your time.) If it helps, I continue to be pretty happy about the ASPD theory I suggested here, with the caveat that I now think that it’s only an explanation of a subset of ASPD cases. I’m pretty confused on borderline, and I’m at a total loss on narcissism. There’s obviously loads of literature on borderline & narcissism, and I can’t tell you concretely any new studies or analysis that I wish existed but don’t yet. But anyway, if you’re aware of gaps in the literature on cluster B stuff, I’m generally happy for them to be filled. And I think there’s a particular shortage of “grand theorizing” on what’s going on mechanistically in narcissism (or at least, I’ve been unable to find any in my brief search). (In general, I find that “grand theorizing” is almost always helpfully thought-provoking, even if it’s often wrong.)
Steven—well, I think the Cluster B personality disorders (including antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic disorders) are probably quite important to understand in AI alignment.
Antisocial personality disorder (which is closely related to the more classical notion of ‘psychopathy’) seems likely to characterize a lot of ‘bad actors’ who might (mis)use AI for trolling, crime, homicide, terrorism, etc. And, it provides a model for what we don’t want AGIs to behave like.