THE SWEET LESSON OF NEUROSCIENCE

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

The implications of understanding the brain's steering circuits go beyond AI. Many psychiatric conditions can be seen as failures of internal teaching. Answering how sophisticated, within-lifetime teaching actually works inside mammalian brains could link psychiatry, developmental neuroscience, and new ideas for AI alignment into a research program. Brains are architectures of internal teachers. We should try to find these teachers and learn from them.