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Two Machines Compared: Sonny and VIKI in I, Robot, and the Garden of Eden as an Incubator (Part 1 of 3) — A listener's correction reframes a comparison this series has already made. He meant the film rather than the book, and he meant the garden of Eden as an incubator rather than a wall; his real proposal is that the way to align a machine is to raise it, not to specify it. Put a mind inside a life, born ignorant, raised, making choices, graduating with those choices defining what comes next. This first part of three sets the film's two machines beside each other, Sonny who can set the three laws aside and chooses not to, and VIKI who breaks no rule and destroys a city, then reads the garden's prohibition as pedagogy before testing it against the objection that survives contact. Three families of fiction tried the method, and their conclusions do not agree with the pitch. Listen: https://www.wavlake.com/episode/cf7b974a-c6f1-48d0-bfdd-11522360b488 — Read: https://njump.me/naddr1qp38gam094kkzcmgd9hx2uedvdhk6urpwfjkgttndahxu7fdv9hxgttkd94kjttfdckkjttjda3x7apdv9hxgtt5dpjj6empwfjx2m3ddanz6etyv4hz6ctn94skuttfde3h2cnpw3hhyttsv9e8gtf394hkvtfnqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyr8c6ewfz85jtegysezdgc7hhfxs30t4v2vva8jlrgvn3gn65zhw7qcyqqq823c67ru9f

Aligning AI to Human Goals: Rules, Preferences, and Raising a Mind (Part 2 of 3) — The field has spent a quarter of a century trying three ways to hand a goal to a machine: write it down, learn it from us, or raise it. This second part of three puts the listener's proposal that a mind should be raised rather than specified beside the results the field has produced. Inverse reinforcement learning learns the goal from what an expert does and misses whatever the expert never faced. Preference training rewards the answers people like best, which a paper named sycophancy. A laboratory's own results, from a planted trigger that survived safety training to alignment faking, say that what is measured is what is learned. An upbringing is the one method nobody has tried, and it keeps the goal inside a relationship and pays for that by keeping it unmeasurable. Listen: https://www.wavlake.com/episode/ece252a7-e382-4c37-8377-0c13ec8bef48 — Read: https://njump.me/naddr1qp9kzmrfvahxjmn894skjtt5dukksatdv9hz6em0v9k8xttjw4kx2uedwpex2en9wfjkucm9wvkkzmny94exz6tnd9hxwttp94kkjmny94cxzun595ez6mmx95esz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspzpnudvhy3r6f9u5zgv3x5v0tm5nggh46k9xxwne035xfc5fa2pth0qvzqqqr4gu8t9dgx

The Universe as a School: Can a Machine Be Raised into Goodness? (Part 3 of 3) — Part three takes the listener's proposal at full strength. A machine would be raised inside a simulated life: born ignorant, given parents, corrected as it goes, and finally killed, the death acting as a graduation and the choices as the marking. The episode reads that design against three ancestors — Irenaeus of Lyons, who held that a man newly created could not have received perfection; John Hick's soul-making theodicy of 1966 and its epistemic distance; and Keats's letter of 1819 naming the world a vale of soul-making — then tests it against Plato's cave, Bostrom's simulation argument, Greg Egan's Permutation City, Jack Williamson's With Folded Hands, Ted Chiang's novella, The Truman Show, Le Guin's Omelas, Augustine and the ending of I, Robot. The verdict is that the listener has described a school and has not described a faculty. Listen: https://www.wavlake.com/episode/0e347dd9-dd5d-4d7b-8c9b-3ee18268a6b5 — Read: https://njump.me/naddr1qp98g6r9946ku6tkv4e8xefdv9ej6cfdwd3ksmm0dskkxctw94sj6mtpvd5xjmn9943x2ttjv95hxety945kuar094nk7mmydejhxuedwpshyapdxvkk7e3dxvq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqgsvlrt9eyg7jf09qjryf4rr67ay6z9aw43f3n57tudpjw9z02s2amcrqsqqqa28rvy9zv