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Thinking about a population-scale future with many Earth's worth of intelligences, many physically embodied, has substantially changed the speaker's view of alignment.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“I feel like I've changed my mind on how I think about alignment quite a bit through especially thinking about this population size dynamic of just having many Earth's worth of intelligences, many of them which will be physically embodied.”Play from 40:26Report a misattribution
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