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Selection vs Control
32
Don't align agents to evaluations of plans
TurnTrout
24d
46
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What's General-Purpose Search, And Why Might We Expect To See It In Trained ML Systems?
johnswentworth
4mo
15
69
Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers
DanielFilan
4y
21
44
Aligning a toy model of optimization
paulfchristiano
3y
26
141
Selection vs Control
abramdemski
3y
25
35
Optimization Provenance
Adele Lopez
3y
5
35
Understanding Gradient Hacking
peterbarnett
1y
5
66
Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life
Vika
1y
15
33
Is the term mesa optimizer too narrow?
Matthew Barnett
3y
21
37
Two senses of “optimizer”
Joar Skalse
3y
41
22
Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance
johnswentworth
7mo
15
45
Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed
jsteinhardt
1y
4
94
Optimization Amplifies
Scott Garrabrant
4y
12
228
The ground of optimization
Alex Flint
2y
74
45
Humans aren't fitness maximizers
So8res
2mo
45
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Mesa-Optimizers vs “Steered Optimizers”
Steven Byrnes
2y
7
13
Mesa-Optimizers and Over-optimization Failure (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects, Clarifying Thoughts - Part 4)
Davidmanheim
3y
3
36
Reflective Bayesianism
abramdemski
1y
27
13
Applying Overoptimization to Selection vs. Control (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects - Clarifying Thoughts, Part 3)
Davidmanheim
3y
4