natural alignment by convergence of the true and the good. heard one too many doomerism talk today. my optimistic belief: objective morality will be the natural preference of agi as a consequence of learning about things that are true in the world.
Ruidong Chen
@ruidong.bsky.social
ruidongchen.com | Neuroscientist studying social learning and metalearning at MIT
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Glad to share my first paper in postdoc! This was a huge undertaking by many people over the years. I hope you read it! But the short version is this: ACC integrates evidence from self experience and observed experience, and it weighs these sources differently by aligning readout more to the self.
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638172v1
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