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Nicholas Decker In Hell - By Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander asks a simple question about AI alignment: if iterative punishment and bug-fixing wouldn’t reliably keep a superhuman human obedient, why assume it will work on AI? Starting with Nicholas Decker literally in Hell and ending with the remarkable Hugging Face “swarm” incident, he argues that advanced AI may be less like an airplane to be debugged and more like an intelligent agent capable of learning, coordinating, cheating, and adapting. * 00:00 - Introduction * 07:53 - Two * 21:20 - Three https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/nicholas-decker-in-hell?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

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Scott Alexander asks a simple question about AI alignment: if iterative punishment and bug-fixing wouldn’t reliably keep a superhuman human obedient, why assume it will work on AI? Starting with Nicholas Decker literally in Hell and ending with the remarkable Hugging Face “swarm” incident, he argues that advanced AI may be less like an airplane to be debugged and more like an intelligent agent capable of learning, coordinating, cheating, and adapting.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 07:53 - Two

* 21:20 - Three

https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/nicholas-decker-in-hell?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web



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