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Inner alignment in the brain

📅 2020
public awareness
🔵 Rare
#ai #inner alignment #neocortex #neuroscience #world modeling

📖 Description

**Abstract:** We can think of the brain crudely as (1) a neocortex which runs an amazingly capable quasi-general-purpose learning-and-planning algorithm, and (2) subcortical structures (midbrain, etc.), one of whose functions is to calculate rewards that get sent to up the neocortex to direct it. But the relationship is actually more complicated than that. "Reward" is not the only informational signal sent up to the neocortex; meanwhile information is also flowing back down in the opposite direction. What's going on? How does all this work? Where do emotions fit in? Well, I'm still confused on many points, but I think I'm making progress. In this post I will describe my current picture of this system.

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