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Selection vs Control
42
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
89
Bottle Caps Aren't Optimisers
DanielFilan
4y
21
60
Aligning a toy model of optimization
paulfchristiano
3y
26
137
Selection vs Control
abramdemski
3y
25
41
Optimization Provenance
Adele Lopez
3y
5
25
Understanding Gradient Hacking
peterbarnett
1y
5
70
Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life
Vika
1y
15
41
Is the term mesa optimizer too narrow?
Matthew Barnett
3y
21
33
Two senses of “optimizer”
Joar Skalse
3y
41
30
Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance
johnswentworth
7mo
15
49
Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed
jsteinhardt
1y
4
102
Optimization Amplifies
Scott Garrabrant
4y
12
206
The ground of optimization
Alex Flint
2y
74
59
Humans aren't fitness maximizers
So8res
2mo
45
41
Mesa-Optimizers vs “Steered Optimizers”
Steven Byrnes
2y
7
17
Mesa-Optimizers and Over-optimization Failure (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects, Clarifying Thoughts - Part 4)
Davidmanheim
3y
3
80
Reflective Bayesianism
abramdemski
1y
27
23
Applying Overoptimization to Selection vs. Control (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects - Clarifying Thoughts, Part 3)
Davidmanheim
3y
4