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In the subject of Artificial Intelligence it says:

> Theorem: No AI will bother after hacking its own reward function.

and then goes on:

> The picture [263] is that once the AI has figured out the philosophy of the “Dude” in the Cohen brothers movie Lebowski, also repeated mischiefs does not bother it and it “goes bowling”. Objections are brushed away with “Well, this is your, like, opinion, man”. Two examples of human super intelligent units who have succeeded to hack their own reward function are Alexander Grothendieck or Grigori Perelman.

Grothendieck abandoned the mathematical community after modernizing an entire field and eventually secluded himself in France. He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirem...



I think it just happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061653

GPT-3 just wrote an essay arguing that intelligence is doing nothing.




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