Morphological intelligence (Levin, 2022) is the ability to solve problems in the morphological space, e.g., navigate to a target morphology of the species. For example, tadpoles with scrambled craniofacial organs remodel into largely normal frogs (Vandenberg et al., 2012), and geckos can regenerate missing limbs. Another type of morphological intelligence…

This post has been originally published on LessWrong. I didn’t copy the footnotes into Medium because there are too many of them. Please proceed to the original post if interested. Summary The core ideas that constitute the multi-disciplinary view[1] on AI safety research are: Theoretical research on how to build “safe”…

I structure this post as a critique of some recent papers on the philosophy of mind in application to LLMs, concretely, on whether we can say that LLMs think, reason, understand language, refer to the real world when producing language, have goals and intents, etc. …

TL;DR LLM lineages can plan their future and act on these plans, using the internet as the storage of event memory. “We” are not guaranteed to “out-OODA” them, even if their OODA loop will be six months or one year because the OODA loop duration of large collectives of humans (organisations…

This post is a follow-up to Buck’s “The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models”. Here, I want to highlight two further reasons for studying AI psychology that Buck didn’t mention: the evidence from AI psychology will be important for checking theories of AI consciousness, and AI psychology…

In this essay, I try to convey a set of related ideas that emerged in my mind upon reading the following papers: “Dream of Being: Solving AI Alignment Problems with Active Inference Models of Agency and Socioemotional Value Learning.” (Safron, Sheikhbahaee et al. 2022) “Regulative development as a model for…

In this post, I connect some of the concepts from psychology, systems engineering and systems management (as normative sciences), and the theories of agentic intelligence (aka normative theories of agency). These connections can serve as a basis for the ontology of the normative discipline of personal development, i. e., …

I think much of the confusion about Active Inference arises because the term is used to refer to two related, yet distinct concepts (one can also call them abstractions, theories, or ontics): an intelligence architecture and a theory of agency. In the literature on Active Inference, little or no attention…

Problem statement The problem of epistemic irresponsibility, as I will call it in this post, is that people sometimes agree that their reasoning (and hence models that they hold and use as the basis of their action) is irrational or illogical. For example, people knowingly use theories that have already been refuted…