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Gradient Hacker Design Principles From Biology
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Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization
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The Telephone Theorem: Information At A Distance Is Mediated By Deterministic Constraints
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Gradient hacking: definitions and examples
Richard_Ngo
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Speculations on information under logical uncertainty
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Ten experiments in modularity, which we'd like you to run!
TheMcDouglas
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How to Throw Away Information
johnswentworth
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Theories of Modularity in the Biological Literature
TheMcDouglas
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The Blackwell order as a formalization of knowledge
Alex Flint
1y
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Emergent modularity and safety
Richard_Ngo
1y
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Conditions for mathematical equivalence of Stochastic Gradient Descent and Natural Selection
Oliver Sourbut
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Evolution of Modularity
johnswentworth
3y
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Hypothesis: gradient descent prefers general circuits
Quintin Pope
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Musings on Cumulative Cultural Evolution and AI
calebo
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Gradient descent is not just more efficient genetic algorithms
leogao
1y
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Anthropic Effects in Estimating Evolution Difficulty
Mark Xu
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