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Alignment is Missing a Causal Account

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Alignment is Missing a Causal Account
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“The science of aligning general-purpose AI agents is very new and underdeveloped. In fact I’d say that the field is more like psychology than engineering.”Daniel Kokotajlo[1]Alignment is missing a causal account of what leads to suffering and flourishing. In this post I propose one based in psychology.I am coming from an unconventional background compared to most in this community. I was an engineer before becoming a psychotherapist. Every day I use talk therapy to help people restore function

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