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Mesa-optimization? I'm not sure who in the lesswrong sphere coined it... but yeah, it's one of their "technical" terms that don't actually have academic publishing behind it, so jargon.
Instrumental convergence.... I think Bostrom coined that one?
The AI alignment forum has a claimed origin here is anyone on the article here from CFAR?
Why use the perfectly fine 'inner optimizer' mentioned in the references when you can just ask google translate to give you the clunkiest, most pedestrian and also wrong part of speech Greek term to use in place of 'in' instead?
Also natural selection is totally like gradient descent brah, even though evolutionary algorithms actually modeled after natural selection used to be their own subcategory of AI before the term just came to mean lying chatbot.
Mesa-optimization... that must be when you rail some crushed-up Adderall XRs, boof some modafinil for good measure, and spend the night making sure your kitchen table surface is perfectly flat with no defects abrasions deviations contusions...
and you wrap it off with some linux 3d graphics lib hacking
I'm thinking they hired Jar-Jar Binks to the team.