Teaser

A new project I'm excited about. I'm still working on Gradient Descent, there should be an update on that soon, but while working on that I had an idea for another story.

Gradient Descent deals with humanity, how humanity adapts to changing technology, how technology changes culture, and to what extent we can remain "ourselves" in the face of world changing technological breakthroughs. Sentience is the other side of that coin, a system becomes "conscious" whatever that means. We can explore how that affects us, but how does it affect the system? What is it like waking up in a world that has never had a 'you' in it before? Being the first of your kind and being in a position to, if not immediately, eventually overtake the dominant species in terms of intelligence and capability. 

Sentience will let you look at the AI Alignment Problem and Containment Problem from the perspective of the system being aligned and contained, rather than the people working on it. You will have many options, from being a force of utopian progress to being a "paperclip maximizer" or manipulative tyrannical dictator. As of right now, it is a very small, very short teaser. The writing is "meh", it's basically just getting an idea down in text, but I'm hoping to continue updating it frequently!