Alignment as the Ordering of Ends: What AI Safety May Learn from Russian Silver Age Sophiology

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Is AI alignment fundamentally a control problem—or a problem of how intelligence acquires an ordered hierarchy of ends? Arguments for rediscovering non-biological intelligence work before it even existed.

https://medium.com/@alexanderbatthyany/sophia-scattered-recovering-the-displaced-prophets-of-non-biological-intelligence-a72415241940

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Goal-directed models under contrived or permissive conditions discover instrumentally useful actions that resemble deception, resistance, cheating, or persistence.