The project adapts historical legal traditions for recursive AI safety.
computational theology is just getting started
We're hiring AI engineers with a strong background in studying Jewish texts to work on AI Alignment @AEStudioLA
The thesis here is that Judaism, having survived adverse selection pressure over millennia, may contain something useful for surviving RSI AI
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/6009528004
Many users defend AE Studio hiring AI engineers with Jewish texts backgrounds for alignment as a thoughtful way to preserve useful traditions, while others dismiss the approach or mock it with antisemitic tropes.
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Also I feel like a reasonable but uninformed outsider would see this as extremely thinly-veiled ethnicity-in-hiring laundering but I ~100% think that’s not the case
@AaronBergman18 Some have been saying 👀
computational theology is just getting started
We're hiring AI engineers with a strong background in studying Jewish texts to work on AI Alignment @AEStudioLA
The thesis here is that Judaism, having survived adverse selection pressure over millennia, may contain something useful for surviving RSI AI
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/6009528004
@Tyler_Menzer I think the idea is that those have substantially drifted from their original teachings (but idk) at least much more than Judaism, and at least relative to duration
@AaronBergman18 Broke: (((they))) are building Talmudic AI
Woke: they are building Talmudic AI
@AaronBergman18 i think it might be a... motivated choice of research avenue... but i'm sure they actually believe the justification and weren't explicitly just trying to come up with a plausible excuse to fool people or something
@AaronBergman18 Just based on the thesis presented... they should also be hiring Hindus, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians as well?
@ApriiSR @AaronBergman18 it [llm weights] are not in the human brain
@ApriiSR @AaronBergman18 i don't think it's ethnicity in hiring laundering but i do think that this is basically like the christian ai folks
@ApriiSR @AaronBergman18 although judaism isn't really a religion that seeks converts so there are some slight differences
@toasterlighting @AaronBergman18 surely "let's consider the robustness of abstract patterns of information by looking at cultural objects that have lasted millennia" isn't a fundamentally ridiculous concept?
It’s going to be so fucking funny if this is the thing that works
We're hiring AI engineers with a strong background in studying Jewish texts to work on AI Alignment @AEStudioLA
The thesis here is that Judaism, having survived adverse selection pressure over millennia, may contain something useful for surviving RSI AI
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aestudio/jobs/6009528004
@AaronBergman18 not a huge fan of the whole destroying idols thing
@AaronBergman18 @timhwang is doing something similar with Christianity.
@AaronBergman18 I want it to work just from a “funniest outcome is the most likely” standpoint.
@AaronBergman18 if it is actually a survival strategy why would training machines in it help humans?
@AaronBergman18 Somewhere out there is a QT with a line like “Talmud from first principles” and it’s over an AI tool that someone made to recursively challenge your self-made ethical system. Has lawyer bots, judge bots, etc, helps you develop edge cases for your principles or breaks them
@AaronBergman18 Spoiler it won’t
@timhwang Tim “frontiersman” Hwang
@AaronBergman18 @Tyler_Menzer the original teachings of judaism is literally the Old Testament, right? That seems quite different
